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 8 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 8 of 9

Tomb no. 29, cont'd.

Contents:

Bronze tripod ...................... 1 Bronze bowl, diam. ........ 1 Bronze bowls, small ....... 2 Bronze strainer ........... 1 Bronze pin ............... 1 Iron knifes ............... 2 Whet-stone ................ 1

Pottery: Painted: Amphora, horiz. handles ... 1 Amphorae, handles to rim: 2 Two-handled stem bowls ... 6 Kylix ................. 1 Jug, trefoil mouth ....... 2 Lenticular flask ......... 1 Tripod ................... 1

Pseudo-buccher o: Jugs, trefoil mouth ....... 9

Total 27 objects.

The pottery seems to belong to the earliest geometric or the very end of the transitional period, and the bronze points in the same direction. The weight of the iron implements is in ravour or the more strictly iron age. It is, in all events, very early in the iron age. [handwritten: evidence]

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

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