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 56 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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… Large bag: "15 April 49, grid A-8, south 2-6, depth 1.55." Mostly coarse, red to buff, some ridged. Some roof tile. Late, heavy amphora handles. Pithos rim (drawing) Flat peg base. Gritty cooking ware, thick-walled. (drawing) Frag. late Roman red, one with fairly high base ring. One with rouletting ext. wall. Box with frag. glass + lump cinder. Small bag: "11 April 1949, grid A-8, south 2-6, Stratum 1 [circled: C]." "¼ thrown out." Nearly all coarse. Red to buff. Several amphora handles, including heavy type. Frag. yellowish glass with combed ornament ("Islamic"?) Frag. late Roman red. (drawing)

Medium bag: "16 Mch. 1949. A-8, north 4.8. P.1353-2. Almost all coarse, red to buff. Few pieces roof tile. Amphora frag. Scrap, late Roman keel rim.

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

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