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 46 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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… Very large bag: "12 April 49 Grid A-Δ, South 2-6, Stratum 1B".

9/10 coarse. Quite a bit of late ridged ware, narrow pipe, in orange-red + buff. Numerous amphora handles of various types, including the sloppy late sort. Peg & mammiform amphora bases. Rounded, flat, basen bases; orange-red. Roof tile frag. Also sgt micaceous frag. like fabric of P1600, but red rather than dark.

1/10 Miscellaneous. Mostly gritty red cooking ware. Pots with everted rim; pans with horiz. ledge rim (small handle pasted to upper wall). Note that cooking pans seem to appear with late Roman. Brownish red; fairly thick-walled.

Late Roman red ware. Keel rims. Low base ring. Frag jug with stamped rosette on exterior curved wall. (drawing)

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

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