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 25 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 25 of 103

47 (9/VI/40) More pieces of bones, again covered with pebbly fill, S of cranium of this skeleton.

Along S side of tomb, Christo clearing skeleton of adult, of which bones in a very friable state.

10/VI/40 - 11/VI/40 I was in Nicosia seeing to photography of pots from Lapithos Tomb 5. Elia drawing skeletons in this tomb.

12/VI/40 Elia still working along N side.

[margin left: thought to have been a woman] S side skeleton: - extended, arms at sides, head turned N and as though sunk in shoulders. Head crushed, features not distinguishable. Preserved: part of shoulder bones, both upper arm bones, parts of lower arm bones, of which the right radius is overlapped by a remaining bit of pelvic bone; part of each femur (I saw clearing of these, and that the missing parts actually were not in the earth there); the lower leg bones (the angle of which to each other and

Right page

12/VI/40

48 to upper legs somewhat suggests lameness of some sort; vestiges of right ankle; vestiges of left ankle below which a piece of iron #79 like an arch support but concave to the heel and curved up toward the instep. This object has held part of the foot bones in place as though the foot were turned out to the left, a position in which foot bones left to themselves are not found in my experience. Omitted to mention, series of lower vertebrae partly preserved. Christo thinks wrong side up (dorsal) but BHH thought not so. a little beyond the head, iron nail clearly belonging to this level. (#75).

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

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