Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 2·1950

D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace) XIV 1950De C. Fales

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

Scan 21 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 2 (D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace) XIV 1950), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 2, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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Moreover note that the latest lamps from cellar under flagstones L 761 + L 692, and the latest lamps from cellar under Room O L 620, 439 and the latest lamps from fill in Room E are of L 504, 505, + 502 are all of the same period. The latest lamps from the south cistern L 714, L 717 and from the middle cistern L 959, L 958 L 961 + L 960 are all of the same period. [illegible] It is the fill in the middle cistern the same sought of thing that we find in Room E, many sherds and pots though here we have more hole pots, and in the cellar of Room O.

V. P (drawing) Co Probably the second wall on East side of room with flagstones was added as a part of same change. The door sill reused block on north side who was added at same time because water was cut off. In other words room with flagstones was made from an open court into a room, to look become and the entrance into south mosaic room may have been closed off. + If this second east wall was then added to room flagstone room, may not second east wall of apaduterion east of mosaic bath been added at same time, it seems to have been added when the bath room was no longer used for water, at least the corner is not filled with cement.

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Margin left: and the closing of cistern south of building

The last reconstruction may have comprized the filling of cistern East of Room W, cistern under flagstones Room E, filling of middle cistern, raised floor and reconstruction of south mosaic room, construction of second wall in long mosaic room on north side, the filling in of drain Room S, the second door in entrance to forecourt, possibly the reconstruction of East wall of north part of A Rooms, probably the construction of retaining wall east of north wall of A Rooms, probably the south part of A Rooms, the filling in of lavatories, the burying of lion fountain, the reconstruction of NW corner, the removal of floor west of large room, the first floor of large room. Possible the place for mixing plaster in the late part of the natatio is part of this last reconstruction. Possibly also the the filling in of door way to the water entrance of cellar under flagstones, the entrance above in NW corner. Daniel II. p. 72

The filling of cellar of Room O and the blocking of the hole in Room O are probably both contemporary with above. Possibly the placing of a column drum on top of drain north of S. Vol. 1. p. 147 is part of same general reconstruction.

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

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