Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 12·1935

G. H. McFadden, Kourion Complex II 1935George H. McFadden

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

Scan 11 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 12 (G. H. McFadden, Kourion Complex II 1935), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 12, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page 13Scan 11 of 43

Drawing: architectural floor plan with walls, stairs, and columns; labels: TT, O, S, E, W, N, ξ, V, β o ρ ι α ν, β o ρ ι α ν 0, STONEY FLOOR & DECOMPOSED BUILDINGS 100, 2, 260, 2, LATE CRUDE STONE WALL, LATE FLOOR, HARD FLOOR, FLOOR \uparrow \Downarrow s t e p p. 20, 100, 4, 180, 4, HARD FLOOR, r a m p \uparrow \Downarrow s t e p p. 20, 80, FLOOR 30 c m., STONE, STONE, 6, 6, STONES, FLOOR 30, 80, MOSAICS, 8, 8, Block, 10, V, ξ, 10, Plan completed April 5

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Diary Mar. 29. Continued cleaning of Mosaics. Found probable place for column base 4 found yesterday. (See diary Mar. 28) -- on rubble wall for col. base 2, at ξ - 0, β o ρ ι α ν 13.50 approximately (see plan p. ) Found column base prob. in two or three parts in immediate vicinity. It is probably limestone & goes with it Found another column base broken & very well preserved roughly rectangular near the col. base 2 in wall 30 cm higher Found one side of large column base I love, 0 - Π, β o ρ ι α ν 12.14, 30 cm deep. 55.50 × 55.50 cm. [illegible] of south bench. π ρ o τ α 23 ξ - 0, 0 - 4.

April 1(Monday) Started digging 23 - λ - ν β o ρ η α ν 10 - 12. 19 men & 2 additional wheel barrows working now. Hit stone column base fragment no. 9 on π ρ o τ α 24 stylabate (see plan p. ) 315 cm. north of col. base in situ on same wall.

April 218 men [margin: 5 wheel barrows] ξ - 0, ν o τ ι α ν 0 - 6 cleaned to stone floor, say large flags ξ - 0 & -20 cleaned. Cistern found 15 to 18 Removed dumps for track ν o τ ι α ν 0 - 4 of ξ - 0 & ρ - 0. Also of 0 - Π β o ρ ι α ν 10 - 16 Began digging of Π & Π - ρ β o ρ ι α ν 16 - 18.

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

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