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 54 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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… 2 Medium bags: "30 Mar. 49, Grid A-γ, North 8-12, Stratum 2, 1 debris under silt. P. 1425-2.

Mostly coarse. Good deal of light orange-red, including bottom of Type of P 1597, jug or bowls with base ring, jugs, amphoras. Also red to buff ware, no ridging. Some drop orange-red with yellow-buff slip.

Some gritty cooking ware, fairly red, walls of moderate thickness. Forms or cannestres (drawing), handles pressed against wall. (drawing) (drawing) pot. Frags, middle to late Roman red ware. No rims. (drawing) (drawing) bases. Hard red ware, lot "glaze" on the bot more suggestive of Roman Pergamene than Late Roman. Frag limestone column base (drawing) D profile of ca. 0.60 m.

Medium bag: "1 April 1949 - Grid A-γ, North 12-16, Stratum 1 [circled: B]. P 1425-1(e). "15 metres out." Additional ticket: 1425. Mostly coarse, red to buff, amphora weight. Handle as for P2329. Dish base of small frag. buff jug. Some frags gritty red cooking ware. (drawing) (drawing) - latter two = lids? Cannestre. Frag middle Roman red ware. One with rouletting.

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

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