Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 8·November 1949

D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace) X Nov. 1949De C. Fales

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

Scan 49 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 8 (D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace) X Nov. 1949), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 8, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 49 of 101

103 date 25 November 1949

work began 0645

middle cistern at least 10 meters across. In the lower part the cement lining has fallen away. Above the lining remains. The walls [illegible] in the lower part shows the signs of the tool which chipped away the cistern. The soil slopes down from the center where is about a meter above the rest of the soil. Many large sherds, pieces of glass on surface near sides.

In room JQ fourth layer, the cutting of the third continues, however, a narrow bridge across this 60 cm east of west wall. The fourth layer begins 65 cm below top of west wall. For corrected view see p 108

15. Photo of above.

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date 25 November 1949 104

Small finds L951-L967, L1218-9, L1221 No. 1 lamps in middle cistern. M521 no. 2 handle of bronze vessel. in middle cistern M431 no. 3 nails in middle cistern.

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

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