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 35 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 35 of 103

67

Drawing: plan; labels: PIT 75, PLAN; LINE OF SECTION

Plan and section copied from WCF p. 507, where they are dated

April 5

Drawing: section; labels: PIT 75, SECTION; 1.

Sandy soil no sherds; 2 débris of fallen stones; 2a same wall?; 2a; 3 sandy soil small stones & gravel; 3a same; possibly ground level; Foundation of wall]

Sherds from Pit or Trench 75, see p. 69.

18/XII/41 GMcF says the surfaces of 2a and 3a are not floors or changes of earth, just changes of sherds, in case [illegible] can be told by the individuals of "same".

Right page

(SHERDS FROM TRENCH 43, CONT.) 68

II. Ticket reads: (on 3 sacks of sherds and 2 sacks containing glass)

P 115 - 35 - 15 (etc)

16-4-1940 Ἅγ. Ἑρμογένης X 43 ὄστρακα Βάθ. μέχρι ἀπὸ τὴν 267 ἐπιφανεῖα

(This probably taken in all the 3 part up to th's cnt [illegible] of VG)

A. Frags. of large plain-ware pots: about half the lot. (1.) Plain not noticeable. (2.) Ribbed [illegible] or ridged ware well represented, including the overlapping ribs - p. 62 no. 2 [inserted: (GMcF calls this Constantinian] (3.) Frags. of neck, handles, body of pots similar to p. 62 no. 3. Quite a pile of them to make 1 or 2 of pots. The [illegible] break is bright red with dull core, a few [illegible] white and small white ones. Numerous frags. of a double-handled jar, characteristic fine slightly micaceous clay including both double handles (tops).

Among miscellaneous frags., toes of amphorae: a long peg as Hikenios group jar (cp. 115 solid) but local imitation (rough surface, red clay, pitted, large brown core, some white bits); Tarsian types

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

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