1956–1957

THE ART MUSEUM PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY

Frances Follin Jones, Princeton University Grant No. 135 (1955), $1,500. The Hellenistic and Roman Cemetery at Ayios Ermoyenis, Episcopi, Cyprus.

In the summer of 1955, the grantee went to Cyprus to study the material from the Hellenistic and Roman cemetery at Ayios Ermoyenis (outside ancient Curium), excavated by George H. McFadden and others during the 1940's under the auspices of the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. Mr. McFadden had published two of the tomb-groups before his untimely death in 1953; Miss Virginia Grace had done preliminary work on two others which will be incorporated in the final publication; otherwise, the remainder of the tomb-groups and material encountered in the course of digging nearly one-hundred pits in search of the tombs was still unstudied and was stored, for the most part, in more than seven-hundred bags as they came from the excavations. The fragments of pottery, clay lamps, terracotta figurines, glass-ware, and artifacts of other materials were examined and recorded in whatever detail was necessary, photographs and drawings were made to supplement those which already existed. The resulting records are being coordinated with data derived from several notebooks, numerous photographs and architectural drawings, made at the time of digging; the synthesis will be organized into a manuscript for the final publication of the cemetery. When this work approaches completion and the illustrations are arranged, it will be necessary

Handwritten, top right, rotated: Copy to D. Riddle