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 37 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 37 of 80

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In south mosaic ro[ink blot] the changed part of wall east of mid NS wall is in two parts. the upper part with a packing of stones and plaster is connected with mosaic the lower part is connected with a floor 35 to 40 cm below top of preserved wall. The plaster and stones in back of upper rests on floor of earlier period. There is the same change visible on the outside. To Why was the wall lower at this point? Did we have an entrance here opposite the stairs just outside.

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88 South wall of south mosaic room showing part filled in for [illegible] south mosaic room. photo Roll 76, 7

Photograph

In south room the middle NS wall proceedes from just north of hole in room to south wall of south mosaic room. at that point in south mosaic wall where south mosaic wall changes. As the west wall of Room W is built has been reused at least in NW corner and as the style of south wall of Room W in its west portion resembles that of west part of south wall of south mosaic room, this west wall of Room W would seem should be the wall at right angles to Mid EW wall in R sic south mosaic room. as there is plaster on east of mid NS wall of south mosaic room, it would seem to be an interior wall. If this be so, where is the south wall of this earlier room,

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

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