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 5 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 12Scan 5 of 34

Wed. Nov. 6, 1935Lot no. 85

Photo C 8, of site before digging.

Sink 6 pits ca. 1.50 square, in two rows along the N-W side of the field.

In pit b reach undisturbed earth at 0.40, and bed-rock at 1.10 . Abandon it

Pit c — find one two pots, one inside the other, on undisturbed earth at 0.75, 0.25 above bed-rock. There is no indication of their belonging to a tomb or grave. Abandon the pit.

Drawing: plan of field boundaries and pits; labels: 0, 10m., 20m., Lot 86, Lot 84, Lot 87, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, Tomb no. 30, Tomb no. 31

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6-11-35Pit c — Photo C 9 of pots. Remove them it them bowl with base ring + flaring lip do.

In pits d, e, and maybe f we found tombs.

Start two more pits, g + h.

Today I had 11 workmen:

1. Χρήστος Γρηγορίουpick – foreman
2. Ἀντόνις Ἀλεξάνδρου" – guard
3. Γιακουμίς Γεωργίου” " – guard
4. Εὐθημῆς Τωουλὶ” " – guard
5. Σαλὴχ Χάσσανleaves"
6. Στηλις Θιοδορῆ" + shovel
7. Γεώργιος Νικόλαshovel
8. Τωουλὶς Πέτρου” shovel
9. Ὑσεϊνleaves"
10. Χριστοφορος σομος Γεωργίου” leaves
11. Παναγῆς Χαρίτου” leaves

The bed rock here is of poor quality, sandy and soft, much like that in Kaloriziki. It seems that there are not many tombs here; in all events there are many less than in Kaloriziki.

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

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