Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 6·September–October 1949

D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace) VIII Sep.–Oct. 1949De C. Fales

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 8 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 6 (D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace) VIII Sep.–Oct. 1949), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 6, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page 19Scan 8 of 77

Continued from scan 7

… date 26 September 1949

Swimming bath the east part of north room of rooms north of north mosaic Removed surface soil. In north part removed soil down to bed rock, in one layer. layer about 10-15 cm deep, depending on unevenness of rock surface. This clone mistakenly two layers. Upper 10 cm. thick.

Cleared floors of cellars of Rooms O + M. Began trench diagonally across room west of M. Cleared NE corner of Room B. i.e. NW corner of mosaic, first and second layer Room F west half removed part of second floor, removing first la removed first layer removing second.

East of cistern East of Room W removed first layer removing second. Z, In dromos between O+B removed seventh and eighth layer removing ninth.

work stopped 16:00,

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date 27 September 1949

work began 0630

In room NE corner of Room B, third layer lies in west half end. It extends under west wall and fills in space about 40 cm wide 30 cm deep in fourth layer. 13. photograph of above.

✓[photograph] [photograph] Rm B ✓ Looking N.E.

14. Room west of room M, with trench diagonally across, first layer removed 15 the same along south side.

Photograph

This layer varies in height between 1 + 10 cm.

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65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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