Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 15·May 1948–April 1949

G. H. McFadden, Kourion Complex (Apollo) VI May 1948–Apr. 1949George H. McFadden

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

Scan 51 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 15 (G. H. McFadden, Kourion Complex (Apollo) VI May 1948–Apr. 1949), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 15, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 51 of 102

1097 Curium Gate Trench 9, y-100-d, facing west South 12-13 m. Scale 1:50 Drain cover wall of drain

Drawing: section; labels: Film 113-7, 2, 3 a, 4, [?5

See n y p 1122 See also p. 1123

1. Surface soil

2. Brown earth, rough stones, few tiles and some sherds. Fill below pavement and below cover of drain to top of drain curbing. Red wares - probably t.p. Flavian fill 3. Same but with many large rough stones Red waresherds 3. b Same but digging a little into 4. Red wares

4. Some of 4 removed with 3 b. Few sherds - 3 non descript frags of tiles - thrown out.

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DIARY 1098 from p- 1094. wall running north-south is the older wall, the walls running east-west on either side being later, except perhaps for wall running d-E, 10 north which may be contemporaneous. We have here probably the northeast corner of the large building east of the alley. Also dug Trench 9, d-E, South 0-1 along south side of wall running east-west, a wall which is later, I find, than the wall, running north-south at E. Dug here d-E, south 0-1, strat. 3. See section page 1051-3. Brown earth, very few stones, no debris, appears to be fill only, top of 3 being a trodden level. See Film 112 #35. Many sherds found in strat. 3. Mr. Hill setting up nich, center street 1, west side. Mitford visiting Apollo with view to inclusion of our inscriptions in Corpus. Removing blocks at entrance to square room from street 1, east side street (center), looking s.e. See film 112 #36. Removing dump near cistern 2, beyond precinct wall on n.e. limits of site. Dug also in lower room east of south end of alley along north wall of room and 9-1.30 m. from it (p. 1067-3) to floor level which went with

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

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