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 62 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 62 of 86

127. date 2 November 1949.

[photograph] 31 South part of Room T top soil removed going into north wing of calidarium.

In room west of large cleared cutting on west side to north wall. There is no cutting EW beside north wall. Cleared fourth layer east of northextension of calidarium. This layer goes to bed rock. The door sill below did not seem to go with any definitely recognizable floor. In room, T the first two layers go with stones along north wall the added wall. The third layer lies above an E W wall and a layer which is not a floor. Cleared area north of veranda. This is not T's top soil cleared shows that apsidal end lies over a flagged floor. Cleared ninth tenth eleventh layers SW corner of large room. Section of twelfth. all faine lage Thin layers. clearing soil west east of large by second east wall.

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128 date 2 November 1949.

In second layer in we room west of large beyond north trench we find no trace of continuation of pipe. The lion fountain may have been the outlet and the connections destroyed. North of west room cleared area which may have been a patra. Christo says Peter dug it out. Clearing different soil in NW corner corner of north wall of room west of large and west wall of west room north of large. Cleared cutting east of bed rock in room Beta down as far as possible. Clearing fourth layer. clearing to different soil in room Beta next to east wall, fourth layer. Cleaned south of building to 1 third layer down to bed rock. (Cooking pots) Trace drain which crosses drain from bath in two places, drain bath goes to ground square where west of north extension of calidarium.

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