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 53 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.

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1768. Ter Roman lamp frag. Thin walls - clean hard baked reddish clay. Brown buff surface Discarded - not worth cataloguing

Same provenience.

1769. Ter figurine - man's head - wreathed - mold-made - solid - Curium clay without slip.

Same provenience.

1770. Stamped pot handle - Curium clay OIA along not across handle

Same provenience.

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Room 3 e. side n. end cont. smaller averaging egg size largest being fist size. No tiles. About 1/2 bucket sherds. No other finds. This stratum may be trench dug to lay foundation of e. stylobate wall.

25 + 26 April Removed same area 2703-5 0.50-1.50 S. of e. stylobate 2703-5 1.40-2.80 [illegible] of w. wall 1.40 - 2.50 e. of w. e. stylobate, at y 0.50 - 1.80 m, east of east stylobate wall, fairly loose whitish soil with rough stones ranging from fist to 1 foot in size; 1 tile frag placed in sherd bag; 2 bagfuls of sherds; no other finds.

27 April Removed last week S.E. Bldg, 24.00 - 29.00 east 4.00- 9.00 m north, 2705-1, loose dark soil with many rough stones, averaging from egg to foot size. Larger ones left as found. About 3 buckets of tiles which I am stacking at 6.00 north and 25.00 east A sample of 2705-1 which I have not dug. 10 sherds only. One ter. head F 1771 and lamp type XXVIII F 1772. No other finds. See Film 154-21. Also F 1773 stamped amphora handle

S.E. Bldg. 24.00-29.00 east 4.00-9.00 north 2705-1 now just e. 1st of e stylobate of e portico at 3.00 m S of n. wall more tiles 10 sherds

4th cent. A.D. F 1771-2 F 1773

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

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