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 56 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.

Page 1187Scan 56 of 102

S. end alley to S. thresholdCentral
threshold

Drawing: plan with sections and threshold; labels: a, b, Section p 829, f, a, Section p 1109, 2 South, South threshold, a

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DIARY (cont. from p. 1100) squeeze (impression in plaster made by paving block in antiquity - a reused block inscribed on its under side - missing. The impression being legible or it is partly so in the plaster. It is in Latin. Evened off with soil ground over north threshold n. end of alley. See Film 113 # 5 and # 7. Dug in room east end, south of court to E Bldg. Trench 9, S. E., north. about 10.50 - 14.50. Found Hellenistic lamp, F 584 & coin F 585 at lowest bottom of 1089-2 on what appears to have been an ancient ground level. many sherds. Also bronze F 585 same level. 1089-2 appears to be all fill - not debris. Dug Trench 9 alley, south end, p 1003-3 & 4. Robbing trench cannot be traced everywhere along east wall of alley here, but there is a definite change in fill along wall here and there. See section. Dug in n. e. corner of room S. of E. Bldg. to find whether drain in south end of alley continues in this direction - p. 1101-2 to floor which had not been properly cleaned here and 1108-3, red earth many stones, hardly any tiles, glass & lamp frags, - part of 3 only.

cont. p. 1112

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

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