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 82 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 82 of 97

1559 FINDS

M 832 752. Bronze fitting.

Drawing

Street 1, Y-X, west 8-10 debris. May-June '49

L 1549 important 753. Lamp frag + Frag of rim with relief pattern of grapes & vines. Broneer type XXVIII, our Curium House 1 type. Circa middle 4th century A.D.

Bath, room 6, up against large orthostate of north wall. 1.67 m from west wall, and 0.72 m below top of late threshold block in doorway. See Film 127-35.

25 June'49

Right page

DIARY 1560

our plan of the Bath.

[margin left: E. precinct walls.] Dug between east precinct walls. 0-2.00 m. east of inner precinct wall, south 7.00 - 10.00, under debris a little below average level of wall, to bedrock. All fill - no debris - reddish earth, few stones - all small rough ones. No tiles, only few sherds. Some figurine pieces in same bag with sherds. Dug also west of outer east precinct wall 0-1.00m and 8.00-9.00 m South of S.E. corner of Temple B precinct. Fill under debris 6 sherds only - no tiles. Reddish earth, few rough stones - small ones only.

Dug a little immediately north of S.E. corner of Temple B precinct to find terracotta pipe line coming from Cistern 2, north of Temple A. Few non descript sherds thrown out.

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

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