Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 9·March–April 1950

D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Theatre) XI Mar.–Apr. 1950De C. Fales

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

Scan 43 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 9 (D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Theatre) XI Mar.–Apr. 1950), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 9, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 43 of 82

8923 March '50

[photograph] | 14 in south dromos fill just west of floor under fill connected with niche in west we end of dromos. stones in window bottom of 78 cm below bottom of top of window.

[photograph]15. pots along south
wall of room to T4

[photograph] | 16. Stones in hole in second layer just west of wall west of stairs south to west of south dromos.

[photograph] | 17. Room T1 north end along east wall, level with third layer in southern part.

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23 March '5090

18. Room T1 north end along west wall level with third layer in southern part. note this not third layer but part of

second.[photograph]

170 em from northend of Room T1 the second layer changes and beyond 170cm is hard with plaster, north of 170 cm it is soft with stones and soil. These soil stones and soil lie on the floor of a cistern. In falling they may have broken it.

Clearing modern soil west of stage building. In arch east of orchestra, cleared fourth layer, this a thin layer of rough sand. It lies upon a thicker layer of finer sand. The sixth layer is a ha layer of decomposed stones, thin which lies upon bed rock.

Clearing patsa west of stair west of south parodos. Cleaning second layer south west part of Room T1 Cleaning second layer we south of south parodos east of wall three. cleaning lower part of third layer 100 south of south dromos between walls two and three cleaning fill in south dromos fill under niche in west end.

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

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