Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 10·April–May 1950

D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Theatre) XII Apr.–May 1950De C. Fales

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

Scan 40 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 10 (D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Theatre) XII Apr.–May 1950), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 10, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 40 of 97

8527 April 1950

Small finds

SH 157 no. 1 stamped amphora handle Sixth layer in north trench east of center dromos. no. 2 C 3259 C 3377 illeg. | Ελιας outside excavation area. SH 156 no. 3 Stamped amphora handle modern fill to north of theater. Mo 205 no. 4 pieces of mosaic area north of room alpha, fifth layer on. Mo 206 no. 5 pieces of mosaic in south dromos.

no. 6 C 3260 | Ελιας C 3378 illeg | fifth fourth layer sub room T 1 north part. no. 7 C 3261 C 3379 illeg. | fifth layer sub room T 1 north part. Ελιας no. 8 C 3266 | Ελιας no. 9 C 3267 Axaiv C 3380 Valentinian I Valens | Constans I C 3381

no. 8 + 9. fourth layer room sub-D south part. no. 10 pieces of lamp, eighth layer between theater and bath, north section. L 1162-3

Right page

27 April 195086

The hard layer in north trench east of center dromos extends up to bottom of first row of preserved stones. It slopes down and extends east 1.4 meters. It is about 60 cm high. Seventh layer.

[illegible] photo of above

Photograph

East of or West of vault east of orchestra, hard soil third layer 20 cm. high above bed rock. It has stones and is not sand layer in rear of orchestra. The cement goes to wall and the wall is covered with cement, in the cracks between stones. The stones in front of lowest row of seats rests on soil unsupported by any wall, till the wall in front and are south of vault east of orchestra.

Eighth layer in north trench east of center dromos begins 15-20 cm below top of third layer of stones. It slopes down toward pipes from wall to east of east wall of dromos.

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

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