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 38 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 38 of 104

1273

Drawing: architectural section with measurements and annotations:

labels: scale 1:50 facing north at point 1.70 m south of S. face of north wall of room 6, B to A-B' modern ground level Room 6. line of face of wall (in doorway) Room 8 west side 1 see p 1257 east side 2 column 2 see p 1257 3 floor 3 floor wall west wall p 1273 east side doorway jamb offset 1 2 3 east side - early wares - no ribbed F757 2 some ribbed (west side) 3. Ribbed wares - destruction period pottery.]

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DIARY 1274 cont fr. p. 1270 Began removing clean fill over floor in west end of room where floor appears to be intact, or at least the foundation of the floor. This clean fill is very homogenous and was almost certainly deliberate. It probably served as a floor in the last period of use. Michalis under Mr. Hill's supervision is reconstructing south wall of room 5. Removing strat. 2, p 1265 (see above) all debris - essentially the same as strat. 1. Removing earth from loose fill of dark earth and many small rough stones in 5-G, north 16-20, below level of bed rock where this is intact. See section, p. 1241. It looks very much as though there had been a cave here which has collapsed. and that the earth we are now removing was the fill of the collapsed cave. Compare with 6-K 17-19 north, section p. 1239. Digging Street 1, A'-B'. Surface soil. Dark earth small rough stones mostly smaller than fist size. west 2-12.1 m. from 2-6 m west digging to depth of 10 cm only. The fill of the collapsed

Margin left:

room 5

west of room 4

Street 1 A'-B'

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

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