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 4 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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… ated to the objects in the dromos. The objects or both burials date from the early [handwritten: y]geometric period (W.P.I): the difference in date between the two burials must have been slight.

Tomb no. 35

Dromos: 1. 6.75; w. 0.4o- o.8o; d. 2.75. Rough stairs at the upper end of the dromos; many stones in the lower end. The door is closed with unfinished stones. Many fragments of an amphora were found on the dromos floor. There was a niche containing one pot near the stomion.

Chamber: 2.4o x 2.oo; rectangular

Burial: 1

Skeleton: 1

Contents:

Stone button .......... 1 Iron knife............ 1 Bronze fibulae ....... 2 Bronze ring .......... 1

Pottery:

Painted: Amphorae, horizontal handles ....... 2 Amphorae, handles to neck ........... 1 Amphorae, handles to rim ............ 2 Jugs, trefoil mouth ................. 4 Jugs, wide mouth .................... 5 Jug with side-spout ................. 1 Barrel jug .......................... 3 Lenticular flask .................... 1 Stem cup ............................ 1 Stem bowls ........................ 13

Pseudo-bucchero: plain: Amphora, handles to neck ............ 2 Amphora, handles to rim ............. 3 Jugs, trefoil mouth ................. 7

Pseudo-bucchero, painted. Amphora, handles to rim ............. 1

Total 56 objects.

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

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