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 7 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 largish bags: "14+15 Mar 49. Grid P-γ, north 4-8. P. 1353- 1[circled: a]." Almost all coarse (1 bag = orange-red roof tile, drain pipe, + frag gray marble revetment), heavily orange-red, shading to buff. A few bits grooved. Amphora frags, wretched micaceous fg local coarse Some gritty cooking. 1 lg rim with sausage handle attached to outer rim by three thumb presses. (drawing) - pan rim? Frag good black Hell. glaze. Frag late Roman red low base ring.

Medium bag: "? Mar 49. Grid P-γ, 0-3 south, 0-3 with, Stratum 1[circled: a]." Scrappy coarse ware. Batterie's frag Hell. Perq. plate. 2 frags post-classical glaze.

Small bag: "7 Mar 49. Grid P-γ, north 3-8, Stratum 1[circled: a]." Scrappy coarse, including roof tile. Bits of late Roman red. Frag post-classical glaze.

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

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