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 65 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.

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Room3 hypo- caustDIARY fr. p. 1324 1328 room 3, hypocaust, strat. 3 section p. 1263. Dark soil blackened by fire, a strat. dating from the last period of use.

W. ofroom4+5Continued digging west of room 5 strat. 5 - shall report on this later, also west of room 4.

Bldg.\at\S.E. corner\Temple\B\pre-\cinct.Continued removing upper debris from H 4 q. at S.E. corner of Temple B precinct. Very dark soil - darkened doubtless by roots, and many rough stones of varying size, very compact.

Room3w.\of\room\514 May49 Mehmet continues to remove strat 3 from Bath, room 3, hypocaust. very clean fill of dark earth blackened by fire, dating from period of use. Tiles and sherds found only in upper part of strat. Lower part has practically nothing in it so far. Finished removing west of room 5, Bath strat. 5 + 6, section p. 1277. Strat. 5, darker than 4, loose, few rough cont. p. 1332

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

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