Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 11·1954

G. Roger Edwards, Apollo Notes 1954G. Roger Edwards

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

Scan 12 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 11 (G. Roger Edwards, Apollo Notes 1954), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 11, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 12 of 33

22 S E Bldg.

[margin left: P. R. 2 II 7.]

Right page

23 Layer 3. Soft brown earth with small broken stones. & numerous sherds. Clears over irregular strosis preserved only in patches, seemingly of havara. A bit of N-S wall at ca 3.50 W. of E. stylobate. An E-W wall appears in S. edge of trench between ca 4. & 6.20 m. fr. W E. stylobate Sherds: coarse, including tile. few Red gl Roman & glass

Layer 4 Brown earth with more numerous broken stones which clears over bedrock. Between 1.50 & 2.70 west East of W. stylobate we find an elliptical water hole cut in bedrock its sides sloping in toward bottom It appears to extend into n. scarp of trench. It may be for receiving rain water from the big stone receptacle in the N. W corner of the court. Between 2.00 & 2.60 west of East stylobate appears part of a rectangular cutting in bedrock 0.60 wide E-W & pres. l. N-S. 0.25 This also extends into the scarp of the trench (south scarp)

Plans & section of this trench made by Christophis

water pipe frag. Sherds: 99% coarse, few H. & red gl. fr. [illegible] /1

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

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