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 5 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 5 of 103

7. objects on the general level. It seems to rise toward the dromos side.

In general in this tomb, below the level of the upper jars, very few pots: 2 fusiform 32, 33 unguentaria near S wall at ca. general bone and mirror level, resting, say on same level as the ribbed #20 glass bowl small flask #26 east of them (broken) hemispherical (?) bowl by the 2 glass #10, 11 flasks — the lamp in NW quarter this possibly at a sl. higher level

glass 2 bowls #11, one inverted #28 to celebrate? #20 1 whole flask #7, 2 other broken #10, 14, 1[illegible]? ones, pieces scattered near by

1 lamp #7, G. McF. thinks Type 23

bronze 2 mirrors (?) 16, 19, 1 strigil (?) 15 (sticking up curiously above general level) 2 spatulae (?) 18, 27, bits of ring (some on mirror 19 in back bone pile, some 37? under, 5, where pot #2 was)

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gold mostly bits of tiny laurel 9, 31, St. ? leaves, bit in tubular shape, like sheath, mounting of something as small as a pin (#22) diadem (?) by lamp #9 #8

silver object / (drawing) #25 pin, a frag. of another #29 - #30 ring with stone #13

iron 2 or 3 parts of nails #34-36 [others near 56-58 "strigil"15, and a clamp of some sort in door above pot #1 76]

lead? curious tapering cylinder #21/24

Burials Nothing in the way of bones was preserved to may liner which could suitably belong with the upper layer pots, and they [acc. to levels and character] must represent 2 or more periods 1.) Ten missing cranium frags. just below fallen door were the best

Margin left of right page, notes spanning vertical lines:

notes of 9/V/40

26/IV/41 Apparently #30 was not found when looked for for removal, but a box dated 24/V/40 contained a "frag. of silver, from no. 30?" along with a "gilded trolli from under beast". This may have been all there was of #30

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

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