Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 1·April–May 1949

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

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

Scan 12 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 1 (G. H. McFadden, Kourion Complex (Apollo) VII Apr.–May 1949), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 1, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page 1221Scan 12 of 104

CENTRAL ROOM Room 2 Section 1.50 m from east wall facing west

Section p 1223

room 2

Drawing: architectural cross-section of floor, hypocaust, and walls, with strata lines; labels: modern ground level, 1a, 1b, debris, sunken floor, mosaic floor, mo-, hypocaust, 2, 3, 2, debris, 3, 5, 5, [calculation:] 3/3

See sherd bag 21 Ap. 49 1221-3 ribbed wares 1 pot

Ribbed wares on sunken floor - mostly largely ribbed wares everywhere on floor. 4 (Film 121-11) soft, reddish brown earth with rough stones averaging less than fist size fill Strat 3 (Film 120, 6-quad.) Debris hardy than 2 bricks, worked blocks rough stones. but very little rubble, chuncks of lime plaster. rubbed ware on mosaic floor averaging 15 to 20 cm. 5. (Film 121-19) deliberate fill of brown, earth & many rough stones greatest dia.

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1222 DIARY (Cont from p. 1216) worked blocks from room west of central room (Bath). See Film 118-34. Began removing p. 1221-2, debris Bath, Central room, S.E. of sunken marble floor, 0-2 m west of east wall, 0-4 m south of sunken floor. See Film 119-6

[margin left: room 2] All worked blocks from central room being removed to Tr. 9 V south 2.00 m. ca. Removing dark soil from debris Tr. 9, θ-μ north 17-20, area west of Bath. Removing surface soil S.E. of Bath, Tr 9, φ-T north 2-6, soil loose and darknyed by vegetation. Removing Street 1, X-Ω west 6-12 2d strat - dark loose soil - no debris - same as strat 1, 0.20 m - .45 m below modern ground level. Worked

[margin left: room 2] blocks in southern port of central room, Bath, being placed to west of others. at Tr 9 v, south 2.00 m (see above). See Film 119- 6, 7 & 8. Circular monument with moulded base appears at Street 1, ψ-ω west 6-8.

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

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