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 73 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 73 of 97

1516 May 1950

Step to bed rock just below mid NS wall. It must be later than the step. The sixth layer had a fine coating of hard sand In its eastern part by bed rock, it became thinner and less substantial.

The sixth layer had a fine coating of hard sand over it which filled cutting for step. The sixth layer ends by bed rock lower down and further west than fifth. The step must be later than sixth but they were probably both used simultaneously, that is the sixth covered by this coating of hard sand. The surface of sixth is havara with stones and could not be used a tread surface.

no. 9 and 10 cutting in second layer by north wall of cavea. and full of stones. cutting about 50 cm wide in eastern part.

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6 May 1950152

11. 12. cutting in room omega alpha in third layer. cutting 50 cm wide, 180 cm from south east corner. 80 cm wide in south east corner. It goes down to bed rock. Part may for small of small stones added against

south wall of room.[photograph]

Photograph

13 to 16 dead donkey on floor

of subroom 2.[photograph]

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

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