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 8 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.

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bed rock. The second layer is a fill for first and the third is the fill for supports the north EW wall. As the second covers the whole area on- except to west. The third is connected with the foundations of the North E W wall. This wall is later than the two walls on either side of it Do The East NS wall is later than the South ES wall which was destroyed for the East NS wall. The West NS (approx) wall was connected with the South ES wall. The layers below second were dug as one layer.

Cleared second layer in trench in entrance. Cleared part of third layer in before older door or entrance. This lies on bed rock. This layer is 8 or 9 cm above rock and lies on a softer layer which lies on bed rock. The east NS wall here rests on softer layer below.

Cleared place where dragon lion was found. The soil here was divided into two parts the upper red and sandy the lower darker. These were not separated and were rather mixed and parts of the same

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were found in both. The red sandy layer came from the drain below. The place where the lion was found was not a drain but was on top of the drain and was filled in presumably to make the west upper part of drain the same elevation as that of the east and may be of the last period and connected with the general raising of the level of the two rooms on north er end, or it may have been to make the floor not level with stones on south side of drain. Removed top of drain below and clearing red sandy fill below.

Clearing first area. layer east of building.

Cleared second layer tepidarium clearing third.

Cleared third layer trench west of large room. Clearing third west part of fourth.

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

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