Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 12·1937–1939

G. H. McFadden, Kourion Complex (Apollo) III 1937?–1939George H. McFadden

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

Scan 68 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 12 (G. H. McFadden, Kourion Complex (Apollo) III 1937?–1939), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 12, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 68 of 96

533

Scale 1:50

Drawing: cross section of room with numbered layers 1, 2, 3 and stones; labels: Loose surface 1 earth debris fallen from over head | 2. | 3

W. BLDG Room 7 looking west

3 is fill under capital level W. sond stratum hit floor & w. porous level

2. debris - pieces of concrete toward floor tiles, floor pieces soil

3. Hard whitish fill less slopes off clean tiles & sherd hit fewer cub shocks

Right page

534 Diary fr p. 523

May 12 Dug Room 7 2nd stratum Th West part where sample [illegible] from yesterday pyear - see from [illegible] p. 498, more inscriptions found [illegible] probably st of m 5

Built rubble wall up against 17 [center] west St. Bldge, support it

Finished 1st stratum debris W. Bldg R. 5 - see p[illegible] 496, 7, 8, 9. Dug 4th stratum W. Bldg Room 7 part of it near west wall

Dug Corridor 2, strat. 8 of W. Bldg. lok 6 see plan p. 491 plan 39, no 34.

Began 2nd stratum West Bldg R 4, 6 strato & Room 12 5th stratum cont p. 538

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

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