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

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correspond with "hump" in lower part

Nov. 10 not found → catalogue/P 1598-To S of this mass of earth, edge of rock seems to be distinguishable at .82 below top of Wall B there. It does not reach the mass of earth in the middle. Between, at ca. .90 below top of earth, ^ tiny \myrtle\ leaf of smaller (earlier?) type. A fourth edge of rock was earlier discovered a fusiform unguentarium about at level of bottom of Wall B acc. to memory of digger. (Wall here ca. .45 ht.)

n. c.Top level -1.80 (below datum Digging in bottom of hole, among loose stones in SE corner, at level .20 or .30 above top of doorstan of oblique stomion (visible through a hole in the thin martyra, among the stones), a large sherd of coarse ware, worn all over as from water. Find here below, rock (at ca 4.10 from surface)

18.20 - see p. 159 Phot. curious shape of this lump of hard earth, undercut below and loose behind from cutting away of soft dark earth. N of the hump another change of earth claimed - not rock, but perhaps side of dromos? Cut into hard lump. It starts .52 below top of Wall B

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While earth being removed from clearing of dromos fill, consider Tomb 9.

See phot. 18.9, 10 p. 139#13 Rhodian)/About 2/3 of it (SE part) is clear; beyond that is the sample of surface as I found it, ca. .30 wide and beyond that parts of 2 crania cleared have been covered with baskets to protect from earth which has trickled into this end of the tomb from clearing of dromos and fill above. Further there is along the NE side a high sample, the new part of cuct this year being at full ht to walls of cave. In and against this latter are large fragments of an amphora (?) of plain rather reddish ware. I seem to recall that other frags. were removed last year, perhaps from further out over the floor of the tomb at that level. (about that of our cross sample, to a little higher. They lie in crumbled pebble rock and lumps of chavara. Same sort of thing covers bones in cross sample (mostly chavara) but further SE in center of cleared part there was a red sandy fill over the bones.

Visible are a great many bones