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 86 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 86 of 101

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Rather it would seem that they are part of the construction of second period.

The It is not impossible that the whole line of Greek lettered rooms from alph Beta to Zeta epsi are in reality only part of the third period and that the wall east wall is part of the second period but not the ea room west of it. However they would not have taken away west wall unless it had been of better stones than were generally used in third period The best explanation of the reuse of the foundations. would be an earthquake which destroyed the upper walls but left the foundations. The style between upper and lower parts of east wall is such as to demand a different this must be further elabora defined.

note co hard plaster in fifth layer room Epsilon. and in fourth layer room Delta.

Right page

Room Zeta 178 North trench.

P. 33 Corner as was. p. 35 second layer 90 cm below top of stone in corner. p. 37 third layer 98 cm below top of stone in corner. p. 42 third layer cutting on north side follows line of wall 15-20 cm. wide. third layer cutting by east wall 20 cm wide.

p. 47 Fourth layer 120 cm below top of stone, Trench beside east wall 30 to 36 cm. wide.

p. 49 Fifth layer north trench of room C 3092, fifth layer. Ptolemy IV

p. 53 Fifth layer begins 155 cm below top of stone, cutting 45 to 50 cm. wide. Narrow trench along north wall following indentations of stones.

p. 58 Sixth layer begins 180 cm below top of stone.

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

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