Catalogue·PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 16·1939–1948

Kourion Complex (Apollo), Finds (abstracted from McFadden's notebooks) (2 of 2)

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

Scan 93 of catalogue PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 16 (Kourion Complex (Apollo), Finds (abstracted from McFadden's notebooks) (2 of 2)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 16, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page Diary page 478Scan 93 of 107

Coins

531 .Found on rock just off southeast corner of Propylon threshold or 25 cm. below tread of threshold block. See Film 37, no 23 (24A) April 29, 1939 - possibly a few mm. of earth under coin. Workmen not sure whether found exactly on rock - this earth may have been floor of the _____ of lime and small pebbles in traces over rock can be considered to have been the floor & not simply decomposed bldg. matter._C_______ Const._
532.Just north of flagging north of Temple A stairway - 3rd stratum on stones at bottom of stratum. p. 479._C_______ Ptol._
533.See Film 38, no. 22 (#6) for place where found. South Bldg. Room 1 west side on top 3rd stratum see cross section p. 479. between(?) floor. May 3.
534.Room 3 West Bldg. in debris over floor 1st stratum. See Film 38, no. 16. About 60 cm. below 1935 ground level._C________
535.10/5/39. South Bldg. corridor 2 I-K 4th stratum. Cross section p. 491. near west wall of corridor. See Film 39 No. 14 (#17) for place where found._C________
536.W. Bldg. R 2 3rd strat. Exact place in strat. is not known._C________
537.2 coins found together same place 536 near bottom 3rd stratum exact place in fill not certain._C________
538.12 coins found together. West Bldg. Room 2 ____________ in 3rd stratum just over or on floor upon which the terracotta pipes seen in Film 39, No. ____ . Rest ______ at bottom of 3rd stratum & near north wall & halfway between east & west walls. Workman claims they were all close together. Certainly near or on floor. 4 of these found by pick._C________
539.Two coins stuck together, found with 538._C________
540.West Bldg. R 2, lying on floor level at the bottom of 3rd stratum. See Film 39, No. 15, (#18) for place where found - in northwest section about 60 cm from each wall.
541.Two coins stuck together, found with C 538________
542.Two coins stuck together found _____ with C 538________
543.Two coins stuck together found with C 538________
544.West Bldg. Room 2 4th stratum under 1st floor level & on second floor level. See Film 40, No. 4 (#8)________
545.Same place, a few centimeters away. Film 40, No. 4 (#8)________

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

Objects named on this pageKourion Complex (city site and Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates)

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Recorded (15)

  • 531Coin
  • 532Coin
  • 533Coin
  • 534Coin
  • 535Coin
  • 536Coin
  • 537Coin
  • 538Coin
  • 539Coin
  • 540Coin
  • 541Coin
  • 542Coin
  • 543Coin
  • 544Coin
  • 545Coin

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