Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 6·May–December 1950

G. H. McFadden, Kourion Complex (Apollo) XII May–Dec. 1950George H. McFadden

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

Scan 31 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 6 (G. H. McFadden, Kourion Complex (Apollo) XII May–Dec. 1950), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 6, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page 2260Scan 31 of 100

2259

S.E. Building room 1, north side Section facing East

Drawing: profile of trench/wall steps; labels: low debris, floor, step?, floor, floor

2259-1 Characteristic 4th cent AD. destruction period sherds - Diary p, 2264 Some Roman glass type.

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S.E. Bldg.room 1F 13651366p 1685-3DIARY loose soil many rough stones - all debris. Found here coins F 1365 and 1366 See Film 144- 9 and 10. West end of room not dug here as occupied by fallen west and north walls. The north wall fell first. The stones in fallen wall are still in their original relative positions. Then the west wall, that is a bit of it anyway, fell over the fallen north wall. See Film 144 - 1-13 incl.

S. Bldg.corridor 12253-2Removing S. Bldg. fallen stuff in corridor 1, between rooms 1 and 2, counting from east. 2253-2 See p. 2808 also Debris

S.E.Bldg.room 11685-3seeaboveF 136815 Nov. 1950 S.E. Bldg. finished removing debris (all save 2 or 3 centimeters over floors), in room 1, (fallen north wall excluded for which see Film 144-14) loose reddish soil, many rough stones, fist to bucket size - 1685-3. About 3 bucket fulls of tiles in central part of room (p 1685-3). 2/3 bucket of sherds. At bottom of 1685-3 found lamp frags. F 1368. cont. p 2262

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

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