Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 8·March–May 1951

G. H. McFadden, Kourion Complex (Apollo) XIV Mar.–May 1951George H. McFadden

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

Scan 40 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 8 (G. H. McFadden, Kourion Complex (Apollo) XIV Mar.–May 1951), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 8, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 40 of 93

1731. 4 pot handles with incised Cypriot characters.

1666(a) (drawing) (b) (drawing) (c) (drawing) (d) (drawing)

1667(b)

1668(c)

1669(d)

S. Bldg. room 5, center 7.45 - 8.60 m n. of S. wall 00 - 2.14 e. of w. wall 2663 - 1

4 Apr.'51

1732.Stone handle of large pithos

3.00-4.00 m S. of S. Bldg. 49.00 m e. of w. end 2613 - 2

26 Mar51 stored with tiles on S. wall opposite se and w. wall of cor. 1.

Right page

room 5 | egg size. About 1/10 bucket sherds. No tiles. No other finds. From sieve comes 1/2 handfuls of sherds. No other finds.

MENS HOURS | 7 Apr. 51 (Saturday) 1/2 day Saturday | Men working 8 1/2 hours a day instead of 8 hours, beginning daily 1/2 hour earlier - at 6.30 +4 6 days they accumulate 3 hours credit in this way, so that they may quit on Saturday at 12.30 instead of at 3.30 as before.

4.00 - 7.00 m S. of S. Bldg. 47.60 - 49.00 e. of w. end 2613 - 2 A 185 on S. wall opposite cor. 1 | Removed 4.00 - 7.00 m S. of S. Bldg. 47.60 - 49.00 m east of west end 2613 - 2 much like 1, loose soil varying from reddish brown to dull brown, fair quantity of stones averaging about double fist size, but some up to 1/2 bucket in size. 1/4 sherds only, 1/3 bucket tiles which I am stacking by fence opposite corridor 1 and 7.00 S. of S. Bldg.

Room 5 center 7.45 - 8.60 s. of n. wall 00 - 2.13 e. of w. wall 2663 - 4 | Removed room 5 center 7.45 - 8.60 s. of n. wall 00 - 2.13 east of w. stylobate 2663 - 4 down to bed rock. Hard dark red natural fill over rock. [margin right: Few stones average not double fist size] 5 sherd frags only, small non descript sherds. Placed in box. No other finds.

00 - 1.14 w. of e. wall 2663 - 4

Removed same area but, vertical: F. 1749
00 - 1.14 m w. of e. stylobate

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

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