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 63 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 63 of 103

123 (29/v/41)

Drawing: elevation/section; labels: OBLIQUE WALL AS IT ENTERS

TR.43 FILL TO SW OF WALL WALL (Stone missing at top at end : level taken on end stone below.) Level here is that taken as floor. (EXCAVATED ALREADY) EXTENSION OVER OBLIQUE ENTRANCE TO TOMB 1 (EXCAVATED ALREADY) WHITER ROCK?]

The strata seem to go up to the wall. Actually they are now cracking away from it as we have left a somewhat overhanging corner of earth outside it.

[photograph] 17.22 (See section drawn above) (And cf. plan p. 89 -- scarp slopes back)

COINS 29/v/41 C 10 28 1.) Tr. 43 Ext. over oblique dromos, near scarp to NE, surface or just under. (Possibly from fallen-in earth?) C 10 29 2.) Ditto, depth ca 2.25, under stratum?) near scarp to SW.

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124 30/v/41

See p. 126 17.23 17.24Scarp opposite, having been drawn & phot., removed late yesterday, corner of earth of which it was face (outside wall) and cleared down even outside wall. Photographed lowered scarp NE 43 extension, when its top is ca. 1.50 below top of bevelled stone of oblique wall and its bottom has been cut down ca .30 below stratum in extension mentioned p. 120. (Not done yesterday because the low .30 would have been too fresh and because morning light -- reflected -- is apparently much better.) (A martyra of the stratum will be as visible to the left (ca 1.00 has been left next to the stones at the back of the extension.) I cannot read this stratum in the scarp; a large stone humps above it, and small stones seem to be indiscriminately above & below where its line should be. The only suggestion of stratification is the surface of a the wide white layer corresponding with the one found round the corner and drawn opposite. This may be the floor outside the wall when it was first in use; the wall

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

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