Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 3·May–June 1950

G. H. McFadden, Kourion Complex (Apollo) IX May–June 1950George H. McFadden

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

Scan 46 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 3 (G. H. McFadden, Kourion Complex (Apollo) IX May–June 1950), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 3, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 46 of 103

Tr. 11, at approx 10.70 m south, looking north 1:50

cont. from page 1687

Drawing: vertical section of excavation trench with labeled datum line, walls, and elevations

Datum line "y" 8.00 10.00 12.00 14.00 Est. modern ground level modern ground level 1 2 2 tooted [illegible] fallen wall]

cont to p 1691

Right page

DIARY 1690 shards. Finished digging n. threshold, n. end of Temple A east cella, p. 1681-2, clean fill below late ground level of loose dark brown earth, no stones, no tiles, a few frags of ter. water pipes, about 1/6 tin of sherds in 1.00 x 1.60 x 0.18 m. Finished digging north end of east cella, center of Temple A, at level of orthostates, see section p. 1681-2, north 29-32.

[margin left: Temple A 1681-2

N 29-32]

6 April'50

[margin left: Temple A. F 829-30

Arch bl. 203] Removed large pan tile F 829, see film 132-4, Temple A, e. cella, center, and another one farther north F 830. Began removing large worked blocks in this area. See film 132-4-9 incl. Continuing to dig south end of east cella, Temple A, center, north 0-7. Large blocks in west cella center, removed under Mr. Hill's directwa. Doric capital no. 203 has traces of original plaster on abacus and of a later, thicker coat over a section of the annuli. These annuli are on the echinus like those

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

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