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 16 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 16 of 86

35 date 20 October 1949 It would seem that the for bot lower part of first layer covers because it continues from room A 4 and because it comes just below the lower door sill bottom of the door sill, in to the otool the door into room AF - without it there is an ugly gap and t between door sill and sill flagstones and because sill projects precede precedes beyond wall a lively place tripping block - that the lower part of first layer is is connected with the general founding of the large bath. leared soft soil in hollow in NE corner of room A 91 formed by bed rock and by north junction of north and east walls. N.B. First layer heretofore mentioned meant only lower part. Cleared first layer above stones in NE corner north side of east room north of large, and Removed stones above drain cleared two layers below to second layer on bottom of drain.

Cleared drain south of north end entrance.

Clearing first layer in NS in large room. about 100 m north of south wall there is a change in second layer.

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36 date 20 October 1949

In trench west of large room, cleared fourth layer, cleared soft fill of stones under fourth layer and and soft fill in back of hard fill in back of door, cleared hard fill.

Cleaning second layer east of building between two walls. This second layer is a fill of small stones and earth. It is in reality the third layer because the soil which formed the middle line on in the sketch page 25 covered most of of this second layer except the eastern part. This soil was in reality the second layer. But for purposes of recording it is disregarded.

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

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