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 67 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 67 of 103

131 (shurds [[pencil: 9], from p. 129) of native ware, later 2nd cent. profiles; frag. of a pot like P 1523, glazed inside; 2 joining frags. from shoulder of amphora w. sharp angle (like Hellenistic type, but native ware); frag. Hell. black glazed ware (2 seen attic?); large frag. of base ring jug w. yellowish surface (cf. tomb [7] - [8]. 27/XI/41

1 sq. = .20

L = [pencil: L 374] lamp, at .20 below top of cut stone

S = iron strigil [pencil: M 316] at ca .36 below top of cut stone

Drawing: plan with labels

L S edge of cut stone

[pencil: 9/2/42 The top of the stone seems by section drawings to be ca 4.70 below surface]

Right page

132

31/v/41

[pencil: M 314] Iron nail (head with part of shaft) found in dromos fill at ca. 2.00 below strata -1.00 of inside Wall A.<s> Also a lump of something heavy and curious shaped (sort of like a meteor) - put with the sherds. (see p. 129)

Christi finds an edge of rock (?) which seems to indicate edge of dromos, making a pretty short one

[pencil: M 315] Ca. 2.20 below same stratum, lrg. spatula lying among the loose earth and stones near the NE scarp. (compact fairly solidly, broken in 2 lots by me when found) (l. .19) ca. same depth Rhodian handle with part of circular stamp pres., [pencil: SH 60] rose? and letters ] N A [

[Fro-nów: Dromos (?) fill of Tomb 9, frags. of Hell. [pencil: L 374] lamp w. relief decoration (torches and masks) and maker on bottom. Broken. Bits missing include part of bottom. See description of find At ca. .20 below the top of a fine cut stone which runs along the N side of our cut here and of the dromos of tomb 9. Pieces of an iron [pencil: M 316] strigil found lower down in fill.

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

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