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 29 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 29 of 97

1455

Scale 1:50 facing north Tr. 9 north 20 north of room 4 K

Drawing: ; labels: wall, modern ground level, 1, 2, 3, 4, undug, late Roman, late Roman shards, 3. Brown, loose, rough stones - fist size & smaller - few sherds or tiles - late Roman, 4. " " " (redder soil) ", section p. 1251, <, <

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1456 DIARY north of BATH

Continued digging north of rooms 2 and 3. Both, p. 1449-5, and p 1451-3. Strat 2 and 3 are the same. No real difference noted. Opposite wall dividing rooms 2 and 3, there was a fair quantity of stone blocks. See Film 125 - 30, 31, 35, and Film 126 - 2 and 3. See yesterdays Diary. Also dug north of room 4 and removed all that was left of strat 2 (p. 1251). See yesterdays and the day before yesterday's diary.

South of large plunge bath

Continued digging [p. 1261-1] south of large plunge bath, 2 - 2.50 m. Dark loose surface soil, many rough stones. and worked blocks of varying size. Am leaving larger ones as found. Ribbed shards very few sherds so far.

Worked blocks

Worked stones blocks found north of rooms 2 and 3 are being placed on wall running east-west immediately to north. Nothing being dug at present north of this wall.

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

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