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 48 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 48 of 86

99 date 29. October 1949

[margin left: for Fuller account v. not. XIV p. 84] is cut for south wall. The north side is not cut. The fourth layer is on north side rests on bed rock, as does in all probability the south. In the third layer, there is cement used in connection with the drain.

In room Beta, between north walls second and third layers, a fill containing pieces of cement, on of two kinds, pieces of plaster moulding and wall tiles.

In room west of large, cleared out ffth layer, upon bed-rock.

Cleaning cutting on west side of room west of large, north end.

Cleared first two layers in apsidal room NN from north entrance. Second layer rests on bed rock. There must have been another layer in low beside north side of north wall, because plaster is exposed, at bottom of wall.

Cleaned soil above cement south of building

Cleaning first layer NE of NWSE wall out by NE corner of caldarium

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100 date 31 October 1949

Work began 0635

South of building the third layer begins 10 cm below edge of cement. The first layer lies on top of the cement and the top of the second is even with the cement.

21. 27 tile in st [photograph; 26] south end of calidarium on east side

end of roll four-eight tile vertical end of roll 48

NE of wall NE caldarium, the third layer begins about 1.00 m below bottom of wall. The second layer begins about 30 cm below wall.

In room Beta. fourth layer top of removed of vases. showing pocke pockets of plash

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

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