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 59 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.

Page 1715Scan 59 of 103

Drawing: architectural section

orthostate CROSS SECTION TEMPLE A, E CELLA, CENTER NORTH 24.00 LOOKING NORTH SCALE 1:25 approx floor level DEBRIS undug 1 Fill loose red earth - many fist size rough stones + 3 small tile frags only level of upper rock F974 2 loose red soil Fill w. small rough stones]

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[margin left: 1711-2b tiles in frag] over a rather heavy fill of stones of larger size than found further east which appear to have been placed here to support the east wall. All along the east wall from 4.00-12.00 north and at a distance varying from 0.20 m to 0.60 m west of it larger stones than elsewhere

Margin left: 1709-7

appear in the fill p 1709-2 see Film 133- see also 1711-2 same fill.

17 April(Monday)

[margin left: Temple A Dug e. cella center center p 1715-1 1715-1 F974] Temple A, east cella, east half, 24-28.50 all fill, red earth, loose, not many stones, most of them about fist size - a few larger ones. Only about 6 small tile frags in area, 4.50 x 1.50 1.70 not quite half a tin of sherds. Reached rock between 24 and 25 north at this level. Also dug same place north 17-24- same fill-down to bedrock from 18-24. No tiles; not quite half a tin of sherds, and

Margin left: F844

1 lamp frag. F844 with pinched

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

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