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 35 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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… Small bag: "1 Ap 49 (about). Grid E-Z, North 18, under stones former wall. 1405-3." 2 large pieces heavy Iron Age. Scraps other coarse. Frag quite cooking ware; good quality. Red. Lid (drawing) Scraps thin-walled Hell glaze of better-than-average quality.

Small bag: "1 April 49. Under stone 4. P. 1405-3." Few frag coarse + cooking. 2 frag large Hell. Pergamene plate. Fine, very yellow clay. Dull, thin, blotched red glaze. Some local variant? Shape the usual plate. Deeper coloring due to misfiring? glaze has crawled slightly.

Small bag: "6 April 49. Grid E-Z, North 18-20. P. 1405-5 Frag coarse + cooking, much of it looks early pre-Hell. Plain (drawing) orange-red amphora neck. Rim small orange-red bowl (drawing) Small bag ditto fine sieve. Scraps of coarse + cooking. Small bag: "6 April 49. Grid E-Z, North 18.50 - 20. W. to base. P. 1405-5a." frag coarse ware - ditto sieve: Nondescript scraps coarse + cooking.

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

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