Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 14·November 1947–May 1948

G. H. McFadden, Kourion Complex (Apollo) V Nov. 1947–May 1948George H. McFadden

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

Scan 88 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 14 (G. H. McFadden, Kourion Complex (Apollo) V Nov. 1947–May 1948), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 14, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 88 of 103

Street 1, E-Y, west 11 m. Facing west scale 1:100 [arrow pointing right]

Drawing: architectural cross-section; labels: N, Level line T, modern ground level, W, R, T, O, XI, N, M, unexcavated, debris 2, earth + stone, [illegible], bedrock, Π-P(2 strat.) probably pre Aug./

— Spot 8

Drawing: architectural cross-section; labels: modern ground level, ^, K, I, Θ, H, Z, E, unexcavated

— Spot 8

1.Surface soil 1@ Upper part debris — clay tiled-roof caves = (T-Y)

2.Debris - many stones + worked blocks clay

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972 DIARY

Cont from page 958

Stones in debris here are very much smaller though a great many of them. Hardly any large stones or worked stones at all [M-P] west 8-12

Top of 2d strat. here nearly flush with bottom of orthostate course in wall running east-west. No tiles

17 May 1948 Removing Street 1, M-Z, west 4-12 stratification, 2. Great amount of fallen stones. Earth found among them cannot appear to have been either from bricks or mud roofs. No straw. Reddish, save All where darkened by vegetation, is worked stones being left as found until drawn in situ - as usual. Tiles from 1 [encircled: @], piled up and labelled. west near marble floor, n.w. corner. Tiles east 0-12: none found Tiles west 0-2 piled up on Spot 1 + labelled cont p. 978

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

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