Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 2·1934

J. F. Daniel, Kourion/Kaloriziki 1934John Franklin Daniel

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 38 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 2 (J. F. Daniel, Kourion/Kaloriziki 1934), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 2, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page 62Scan 38 of 100

June 22TRENCH XII

XII M grave - Dromos cleaned during morning.

Photographs IX 1-2 of dromos with pots in situ (1/10 16 f)

3-5 Romeo + Juliet 3-4@ 1/25 8f, 5@ 1/50 8f

IX[6-7 Dromos facade (1/25 8f, 1/50 5.6 f)]

Dromos cut back from bed-rock facing ca. S.W. at angle of approximately 110° for a distance of [blank] (above surface of earth. [ca] Cupboard cut into dromos 0.10 from grave facade, top to [from] top of bed-rock, 0.40 high, 0.35 wide, deep? At right angles to the grave facade, and entering it, is a wall [blank] wide, [blank] high. Roughly at right angles to this, and joining the dromos wall [blank] from grave facade (inner face of wall) is a wall of poor construction, [blank] wide, [blank] long. At a height of 0.45 from the dromos floor and in the N.W. angle of the 2 walls just described, is an P122 oenochoe of coarse ware. 0.35 from the grave facade, and by the north wall, at a height of 0.60 from the dromos floor, is another coarse ware pot. Not mended or catalogued (incomplete) The entrance to the grave is blocked by stones ca. .30 square. The fill of the dromos was very loose, containing many rocks and roof-tiles, few sherds above a depth of ca. .65. Those below that depth may have been placed in the dromos.

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June 22cont'd._ TRENCH XII - GRAVE IN XII M DROMOS Section of Earth 0.20 from south wall of Dromos

Drawing: vertical section of layers

0.50------ bed rock (sloping} Top Soil
<--- start of cutting in rock
0.40<- fairly clean soil
0.70<- loose soil with many stones
and building tiles
0.65<- hard dark soil with sherds
<- dromos floor
^ no west wall]

Fragments of pot against this reserved section, 0.35 from dromos floor, 0.35 from facade, 1.10 from north wall

F8 XII M Dromos - on floor of dromos, at N.E. corner, below jug, Figurine (dog?) of sloppy workmanship. Hand-made.

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

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