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

D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace) IX Oct.–Nov. 1949De C. Fales

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

Scan 11 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 7 (D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace) IX Oct.–Nov. 1949), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

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

Unnumbered pageScan 11 of 86

25 date 19 October 1949 East of building west of cutting south of cave. [drawn arrow] = 20 cm.

Drawing: plan; labels: bed rock, cutting in bedrock., cutting, bed rock. cutting bottom of, below, 40 cm, to top of wall, 2 blocks high, rock, level with bed, 120 cm

15. 20 cm above bedrock.

Photograph

32. photograph of above

Right page

26 date 19 October 1949

In room west of large cleared fill behind door. be In third layer and below a different fill exists behind floor for a distance of about 90 cm.

Cleared first and second layers in drain in west room of north of large. The second layer was harder and more clay like. It covered stones embedded in clay. These stones at their highest point were 70 cm below catty corner in NW corner. They are a good indication that the drain was closed on purpose.

Cleared trench in front of entrance below in trench across entrance.

Clearing trench first layer in east part of large room; French NS.

In NW corner of large room, cleared black soil. This layer was covered in the rest of the room by a layer of pebbles and clay.

This black layer possibly of burnt material went under the layer of pebbles and clay a short distance from the wall. It contained some stones and rested

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

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