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… <u>Thursday, May 31, 1934</u> <u>Trench III</u> - extend 12 meters to south: total 36 meters.
Open meters 1-8 toward west, roughly to triangle 5 meters deep.
Open meters 12-16 toward west, also about 3 meters deep.
L 97L 74Discard upper fill (rocky, 40 cm. to 1-2 meters) 5 pails of weeds. 15 of tiles. Keep 1 1/2 buckets of sherds, assorted tiles, and pieces of marble, etc. III West. ext. A-E surface XXVIII lamp frag. III Western ext. 1-8 (A-E) surface lamp top Trench III, m.18-24, from ca. 1.60 down (at present to 2.65) strosis of light-colored soil, apparently undisturbed Roman strosis. Take home 11 scans of pottery, all to be washed before sorting.
S. 23L 132Ins. 1[..Special finds in this strosis: 1 fragment of fine black-glazed ware, probably attic or best period. Jammed up against wall 18-20 at depth of 2.00 2 m. 20, depth 2.50: fragment of ornate lamp of type XXI, class 2. Early (1st 1/2 of 1st cent. A.D.?) 3 Tube of ivory (?) broken. Rudely incised. 4 m.22, d. 2:00 inscript. frag. marble [[....] /] [illegible] / AOYK] (.082 x .054) Meter 16, depth ca. 1 meter: two lamps (one class type XXVII class 1 [early 2nd cent. A.D.] ?)
Meter 24, depth 1.50 (black rocky strosis): coin 10 [orange pencil: C 3720 Lepida]
L 75L 98III A-N 1.00-1.95 Type 27 lamp III 1-8 west ext. surface, XXVIII lamp frag.
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May 31contd.
Orange pencil: C 3721 / Constantine
<u>TRENCH III, sec. 12-20</u> Find floor of house (m. 13-16) at depth of 2.60. 3 amphorae in situ on floor, crushed by earth falling from above (at time of destruction). Coin on surface of [circled: 11] floor. (Was lying on floor when house was destroyed. Earth fill absolutely uniform from depth of ca. 20 cm. to floor of house: loose earth full of rocks. No signs of fire.
Trench III from 12 to 36 m.)
Drawing: plan of trench showing walls; labels: 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36
Rough section of side of trench III from 20-24 m.
Drawing: section; labels: surface, 1m->, 2m->, 2.50, wall, 20m., 24m., Fill, rocks, tight soil, slighty / darker, light soil to / 2.65, maybe lower, thin pebbly layer
<- dug to depth of 2.65
See p. 18 for accurate cross-section
- <u>contd. p. 16</u> -
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain