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 54 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.

Page 114Scan 54 of 101

113 date 29 November 1949

In the northeast area of palace, there is the first period when the palace was built and there existed no street wall. The whole area north of room T and East of the A rooms was open. Room T was much small and did not have to have any opening on north is an northend of Room East wall of Room T. At this period, the door in the East wall of the A rooms was used to such an extent that the ground in front of it became like a floor whereas that to the north of it remained soft because not walked on. In the second period, the wall to west east wall of the street was laid and the south extension of the east wall of the A rooms was laid to make some thing of street and rooms to the west. At this period the area to the west east of east wall of street was cut off and possibly filled in with stones. From the appearence of the east back side it was not meant to be seen. In the third period, the the northern most wall of room T was built and the northern sections of the east wall of the A rooms rebuilt.

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date 29 November 1949

27. wall north of room

west of large.[photograph; printed: 27]

28 EW wall in area

East of street[photograph; printed: 28]

29 EW wall in area

East of street.[photograph; printed: PLUS X; 29]

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