Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 5·May–June 1950

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

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

Scan 55 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 5 (G. H. McFadden, Kourion Complex (Apollo) XI May–June 1950), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 5, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 55 of 99

FINDS 1892. Frag. Roman lamp. discarded as too fragmentary. Sh 609

S.E. Bldg. S. portico E 19-20 20352 3 5 June '50

1193. Coin illegible into book pocket C 657

Temple A w.cella, e. aisle, N 5-10, 2021-4. From sieve. 6 June '50

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DIARY 6 June '50 2108

[margin left: Temple A w.cella e. aisle N 5-10 2021.4] Removed Temple A, w.cella, e. aisle, 2021-4, N 5-10, about the same stratum as 2021-3 but slightly darker and with more stones for which see Film 142-15. Very sandy. About 1/2 bucket of sherds and 1/4 bucket of tiles which I am placing in a bag to be washed & stored with sherds.

Removed also same aisle N 10-12 strat 2021-4, unlike strat. from N 5-10 in that it contains no sand at all and it is also somewhat darker, and with few stones. quite a different character of fill, Rather loose. About 1/6 bucket sherds and no tiles what soever. See Film 142-16

[margin left: SIEVE N 5-10 2021-4 F 1193] Sieved N 5-10, same aisle removing about 1/10 bucket sherds and one coin F 1193.

[margin left: SIEVE N 10-12 2023-3] Sieved also N 10-12, 2021-3 2023-3, about 1/4 bucket of sherds no tiles, and a frag of what may be a lamp F 1194.

[margin left: F 1194 N 10-12 2021-4 2023-4 SIEVE] Sieved N 10-12, 2021-4 2023-4 about 1/12 bucket sherds only - no tiles

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

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