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 86 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 86 of 104

Table continued from scan 85

1369Cistern 2
top of coping (drawing)

empty

1. Fallen stones, earth + lime wall plaster -- sort of whitish fill + no sherds [gap] 1 [gap] 2 [gap] 3 [gap] 4 a [gap] b [gap] 5 [gap] 6 [gap] 7.

[gap] 8com-Plot

Dark brown with many sherds - very few 2 rubbly sherds only tightly packed - only shreds in cistern to date - rest of recognizable pottery looks much earlier

5. Lamp FF 723
[gap] Br. type XVII FF 724

Right page

DIARY fr. p. 13601370

Cistern 2 | at depth of 2.75 m 2.62 below top of coping, and 0.27 m below top of fill. A number of rough stones of varying size at top of fill but from 25 cm down so far fairly clean brown earth, found only with small rough stones only - mostly chavara - a good many chunks of lime plaster also coming out. This once covered the walls of the cistern.

BATH room 4 + praefurn ium | Finished digging strat. 4 under west doorway and step of room 3 in praefurnium. See section p. 1263 and removed strat. 5 + 6 in praefurnium west of doorway in room 4 - section p. 1239 + 1251. Strat. 6 was a very dark strat - blackened by fire - gray in parts - ashes. This strat. dates from period of use.

Walls between Temple B + Bath | Continued removing rough stones in bldg. (if it is bldg) at s.e. corner of Temple B Precinct - dark surface soil, between inner and outer parallel walls leading from this point to vicinity of

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

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