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 26 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 26 of 43

46 Cross Section of T_1 Tr 23, βοριον 0-

βοριον 0 = -25 2 = -25 4 = -35 6 = -26 8 = +15 10 = 0

Drawing: cross section

βοριον 0 0 2 1 2 Pavement 4 6 8 Not disturbed by French diggers 2 pavement βοριον 10

② I'd as ② p. 36

① 4 same as ① p. 36

Right page

Diary (cont fr. p. 39) 47.

April 23Men began hoeing δ-ε βοριον 0-8 & νοτιον 0-10. All but two sent to dig. K-Ξ βοριον 0-2 & Digging continued Π-Τ, βοριον 0-4 Continued removing dump, east of Tr 41 & grave & north aisle, Men well on getting road suitable to pass over north aisle to eastern grave tail. 24 men. Walls uncovered Π-To βοριον 0-4 proved to well be apse of older church or Basilica.

April 2424 men 3 cars in morning 4 in afternoon Dug Π-σ βοριον 4-8, δ-ε βοριον 10-14 (Myrioanthousa) K-N βοριον 0-2, Λ-Μ βοριον 0-2 Finished M-Ξ, down to slab or lime mortar & decomposed pebbles. Measured hill of wheat just south of Tr 23 dump, then 2 other little mounds on edge of hill to South. It measured, before dumping upon it 28 m long by 4.20 broad. Taken at 10 m S. of most northern extremity of hill. Another contiguous mound of old fill is on edge of the above hill & W of it separated fr it by low land. It measures, breadth 36 m by 10.70 m in the middle, southern extreme but only 13 m in the most northern extreme of mound w/ a distance of 25 m.

April 2524 men 7 wheel barrows - 4 cars all wheel barrows K-M βοριον 0-4 & to remove dump north of Tr 23 E-K Dug Π-T βοριον 4-12 - only to first stratum. Also K-M, βοριον 0-4 - only first stratum Continued to remove dump just south of Tr 23 K-M.

cont p. 51

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

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