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 86 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 86 of 96

569 Diary

to consist in general of mud fallen tiles from upper floor or from roof. The West Bldg. Rooms 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 have this fill down to floor - plenty or compact fairly clean till tiles only very small number or tiles (plenty third or tiles (plenty up on clay) & practically no dig in it. Rooms 1 & 2 have clay fill - probably 1 & 2 had an upper floor - and muc fro/s upper floors in collapsed rooms. A roof - Rooms 1 & 2 had appearance as though no clay likely no mud roof used in room of bldg. - only in upper floors where such existed

cont. p. 578

Right page

Finds 570 pp. 554

? 552. W. Bldg R.7 looking south toward removing cooked earth

Margin left: M135

v. 553 Piece of iron about 11 cm. long - with track of T. ? 23/5/39 baked for floor of stoa opposite R 3 e.

Margin left: M136

v 554. Piece of bronze West Bldg R. 7 southeast corner in 3rd stratum of roof tile [illegible] - might be fallen wood from roof. Depth cm 42 No. 18.

555

cont. p. 622

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

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