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

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Margin left: # 17 X of Pit 64, dromos reed. with brown wheel.

P. 185, 5 Sherds (no date) Tr. 43/75 2^nd stratum, ca 1.00 - 1.60, with fallen (?) stones combined with 29/V/41 Tr. 43/75 Stratum 2 (stones) in marlign between 43 and 43/75 [Note that an object attrib. to this lot on p. 105, top, does not appear here and is possibly identifiable with an object in Lot 7 ]; Frag. [illegible] of ball-shape flask, clay grayish buff with light bits - the spiral groove at the base of the neck, somewhat more marked than in P 1587 etc. Casserole ware: many frags. prob. fr. same rimming pot with short flaring neck, vertical band handle from just below flat rim, body of thin frags ^were strik worked by ridges; also a rim frag. which may be from a bowl. 1 frag. ribbed ware fr. large pot of light buff clay with fine [illegible] & handle & rim frag. of mortier (?) of nearly white clay peppered with dark bits, a handle horizontal & grooved into 3, set close under the rim turned out flat; frags. of red clay w. white bits incl. [illegible] flat base - ring foot; other plain ware includes frag. [illegible] of toe of pointed amphora, clay buff to ash grey; tile frags. Hellenistic: piece of poorly glazed narrow-necked vase, prob. one of those oversized unguentaria like P1523 fr. Tomb 5. Also, stairs (?) porous & sharp-edged - glass slag that has gone through acid? (cf. 14XI/41/ top of p. 122).

Sherds P. 185, 6 24/V/41 Trench 43/75 3^rd stratum [illegible] (p. 101) to 2.00 + (see p. 110): Datable probably at least as late as 2^nd AD by frags. (from neck, shoulder and cup-like foot) of a jug like (cont. p. 111)

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23/V/41 Work continued only in small NE tomb, whence bones cleared. I was in Limassol (hospital).

24/V/41 Trench 43/75 At the end of 22/V a difference in earth remarked which may be start of one? of the dromoses. The margin of this on being worked at by Christo this morning falls in an oblique line a little short of the NE end of the trench. SW margin not yet distinguished. At the NE end thus seems to be a horizontal vertical as well as a vertical distinction: the dromos (?) could be distinguished both from an upper harder whitish? layer of dromos (new substance, not simply the bottom of stratum 3, p. 101) and from clear undisturbed sand below. The dromos (?) fill seems to be the same soft stoneless earth as that of stratum 3, ^{upper sherds,} Lot [boxed: 6] - see opp. but sherds changed: if this was a gradual fill the bottom of it will be earlier than the top even without clear change of earth; and Roman glass was found at its Top outside (see p. 105). In the top earth of the dromos (?) [illegible] fr. Hell. lamp, now broken but may be

[margin left: see p. 166

an order to hurry it up a ditch for dromos to 2.00 + on a line down wall (cf. p. 101) L 372]