Field notes·PU-Mu 1050, Box 5, folder 9·1935

Mersinoudhia 1935

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

Scan 2 of field notes PU-Mu 1050, Box 5, folder 9 (Mersinoudhia 1935), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 5, folder 9, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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Tomb no. 31 In process of excavation. Archaic; at least three periods or use.

Tomb no. 32 The chamber of this tomb was round, the dromos never cleared. Upon the discovery that it was abandoned. No finds.

Tomb no. 33 Dromos: 1. 3.00; w. 0.50-0.90; d. 2.35. Very steep, with two steps at the outer end. A niche near the outer end, closed with stones and a brick. Door closed with unhewn stones.

Chamber: 2.40 x 2.10; rectangular.

One burial One skeleton

Contents:

Stone spindle whorl ........ 1 Fibulae, bronze ........ 5 Needles, bronze ........ 2 Iron object ........ 1

Pottery: Painted: Amphorae, horiz. handles: ........ 6 Amphorae, vert. handles to neck: 2 Amphorae, handles to rim, large: 1 Amphorae, handles to rim, small: 22 Jugs, trefoil mouth ........ 3 Jugs, round-bottomed and barrel- ........ 7 Jugs, plain mouth, handle to neck ........ 4 Piriform jug ........ 1 Lenticular flask ........ 1 Two-handled bottle ........ 1 Tripods ........ 2 Two-handled stem-bowls ........ 7 Three-handled stem-bowl ........ 1 Vertical-handled stem-cups ........ 2 Bowls, miscellaneous ........ 8 Pot with vertical handles on body ........ 1 Deep cup ........ 1 Kalathiskos ........ 1 Pot with basket handle and side-spout ........ 1 Plates ........ 2 Other shapes ........ 41

Pseudo-buccchero: Amphorae, handles to neck: 6 Trefoil jugs ........ 6

Total number of objects: 139

Tomb no. 33 dates from the ... beginning of the geometric period. The pottery belongs to ... Gjerstad's W.P.I and comparable classes.

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

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