Field notes·PU-Mu 1050, Box 5, folder 10·1949

Ayios Ermoyenis Bags of objects 1949

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

Scan 15 of field notes PU-Mu 1050, Box 5, folder 10 (Ayios Ermoyenis Bags of objects 1949), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 5, folder 10, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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… Medium bag: "23 Mar. 49. Grid Θ - I +, north 18-24, Stratum 2." Mostly coarse, red & buff. Roof tile + amphora frags. Flat basin base. Some gritty cooking ware. Thick + coarse. Thin + ridged. (drawing) casserole? Frag. early Hell Lamp. Frag. Late Roman red bowls.

Medium bag: "23 Mar 49. Grid Θ - I, north 22 - 24, intrusive pit in Stratum 2. P 1417-intrusion." Mostly coarse ware. Orange-red, red-buff. Amphora frags. including Rhodian. General appearance earlier than above. Some gritty cooking ware. Frag. Hell glazed. Frag. Hellenistic Pergamene. On whole, seems much earlier than what it intrudes into!

Medium bag: "7 Mar 49. Grid (H - 100 - Θ) - K, north 16 - 24, Stratum 1 [circled: a], not including east extension of Pit 73." Mostly coarse. Orange-red to buff. Some ridged. Roof tile, amphora + basin frags. Frag. Hell. Pergamene plate. Frag base, neatly turned, of small cup like P 1567 + P 1568 (Tomb 8-10). Frag. base ring in green glaze.

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

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