Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 4a·November–December 1935

J. F. Daniel, Mersinoudhia/Kaloriziki (Tombs) IIIa Nov.–Dec. 1935John Franklin Daniel

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

Scan 22 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 4a (J. F. Daniel, Mersinoudhia/Kaloriziki (Tombs) IIIa Nov.–Dec. 1935), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 4a, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page 46Scan 22 of 34

TOMB NO. 31 (from p. 21)

20-11-35 Start to open cupboard in dromos, but stop because of rain.

P22-11-35Resume work in cupboard. Continue clearing main chamber.

23-11-352223-11-35 Finish clearing cupboard and chamber.

25-11-35 Photos F 2-3 of chamber.

There were at least two burials periods in this tomb. The skeletons in the middle of the room represent the latest stage. To the south skeleton belong pots no. 1-5 To the north skeleton pots no. 6-12 and the lamp, no. 22. The great mass of pottery at the N-W corner of the chamber was pushed back when the latest burials were made, and lies ca. 20 cm. below the pots of the latter. Pot no. 20, broken, but together, contains the bones of an adult. Pot no. 20 seems to belong in the 1^st layer. " " "

(to p. 52)

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TOMB NO. 26 B EAST (from p. 38)

23-11-35 Continue clearing chamber. At back left hand side find a number of stones and a cutting in the earth which must be for the dromos of another tomb. The stones lie over some of the objects in our tomb. At the rear of the chamber, and partially under the biggest of the stones mentioned in the above paragraph, find a large fragment of a tripod which fits the foot found in Tomb 26 West! (p. 42, no. 21). How the tripod came to be divided between the two tombs it is hard to say. The finding of both fragments occurred in my presence, and the report is certain. In both tombs the fragments were well back, so that there is no question of modern mixing. One wonders if both chambers were used at the same time, and that the tripod, though broken by chance, was thrown in anyway, but got mixed up, and one piece got into the wrong chamber.

23-11-35 Photo F 6 of no. 36 East. Remove objects (see p. 50) There was no sign of skeletal remains

(to p. 50)

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

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