Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 3·May 1940–April 1941

V. Grace, Ayios Ermoyenis I May 1940–Apr. 1941Virginia Randolph Grace

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

Scan 19 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 3 (V. Grace, Ayios Ermoyenis I May 1940–Apr. 1941), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 3, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 19 of 103

35 (7/VI/40) Removing the small bone frags. N of the center line (see p. 31) find some at least are not human: "knuckle bone" and pieces articulated to it, shown me by Achmet. In clearing these away found a few more bits of gold, including some adhering to a frag. of small bone (kept in match box with the frags.).

Burial IVRemove the radius-ulna, also the frags. of silver (?) and carbon.

Removing the bones described bottom p. 28 (jaw etc.) save what can of the bluish substance (silver?). Some directly on teeth, which then kept in find box. Find also one of the tiny gold leaves like #61, put with the chunks of silver (?)

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36 (7/VI/40) Continued clearing bones, of lower level mentioned bottom p. 31. Those toward the bay seem to belong to a child (thigh (?) length .20) laid W to E apparently. Proceeding further S along back of tomb uncover skeleton of adult laid along back wall, head S. Bones best preserved in this tomb so far, stand out clearly with relation to floor cleared of upper bones (e.g. burial no. 4 p. 9) Photographs 56.19 taken by G. McF. to show this relation. In it should show, back against the wall, a small strut of earth on which is a gold bead #70 .025 long. This is too high for the new skeleton and presumably went with the discard pile cleared away from above, which included some colored beads (#24). The floor under the new skeleton slopes down from the wall toward W, i.e. toward center of tomb, so that thigh bone nearer wall (.1. lt.) is higher than the other. The earth of the upper floor just covered the new skeleton, and this upper thigh was broken by my having set the leg of a camp stool on the floor at exactly this spot when nothing showed.

[margin left, spanning lines 12–16: at this point, had cleared only legs to upper part of femur, moving S.]

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

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