Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 2·May–June 1949

G. H. McFadden, Kourion Complex (Apollo) VIII May–June 1949George H. McFadden

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

Scan 26 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 2 (G. H. McFadden, Kourion Complex (Apollo) VIII May–June 1949), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 2, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page 1450Scan 26 of 97

1449

BATH, north of room 3, 1.00 m east of wall running north south facing west Scale 1:50 Section p 1451

room 3

Drawing: architectural cross-section; labels: modern ground level, undug, stae, 21, 2, 26

3.Destruction sifted above " " "

2." " + red wares

Right page

DIARY 1 June '49

[margin left: S.E. dump] Levelling out dump. S.E. of Bath. Most of men put on this job for most of the morning.

[margin left: north of BATH] Continued digging north of rooms 4 and 3 of Bath, sections p. 1251-2 (see yesterdays Diary) and p. 1449-2 (north of room 3) and 1449-3. (see also p 1451). See Film 125- 30, 31, and 35. Light brown, very slightly reddish medium hard strat. with many rough stones averaging about fist size. Few tiles fonly. About 2 quarts of sherds in area 2 x 4.70 m x 0.33 m. Strat. 3, no noticeable change. Same quantity of sherds-few tiles. Probably all debris & decomposed bldg. material.

[margin left: Cistern 3] Continued digging out cistern to depth of over 5.00 m (p. 1369-7). Workman (Γεωρκος) tells me he found no lamps in strata 6 & 7 in center of cistern, only near walls. Glass he says appears also only near walls in these strata. The

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

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