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

DROMOS OF TOMBS 9 AND 1 BEFORE REMOVAL OF LOWER STRATUM

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Photograph

18.21

Photograph

18.22

[margin left: depth 4 ca. 3.70 to rock of floor of rock of west of dromos] P.186, [20] Sherds cont. from p. 145- handled jar may go over into the 1st; otherwise largely casserole ware, pots with flaring necks & simple rims, handles to rim, parts of a coarse ware jar with broad thick rim with rim diam. only ca .08 and handle .035+ in width; rim frag. of coarse ware jar or prob. jug (rim ca. .07- diam.); rim frag. of 2^nd cent. ? incurving bowl of finer ware with poor glaze, blackish & reddish; foot of fus. unguent. of greyish buff clay, not carefully profiled, prob. of 2^nd cent. 3/XII/41

Sherds ^{P.186 [21]} 4-5/VI/41 Tr. 43 Extension, whitish earthdromos fill? distinguished & photographed down middle of extension; nothing recognized as later than 2 joining frgs. of Pergamene ^{P 1913}, which join to - frag. from Lot 19/. But a frag. of a black coarse ware pot with double handle attached to flaring rim may be later. Considerable casserole ware with handles to (cont. p. 159)

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5/VI/41

See opposite Phot. ^{18.21, 22} (2 exposures) of dromos of Tombs 9 & 1. On clearing of rocks yesterday, saw that Tomb 1 opens out of the side of the dromos, apparently as second thought (?). Visible in phot. should be door slab of Tomb 9 at bottom; large stone on door stoppage of Tomb 1 (behind its standing stone) at bottom left; to right the long cut stone under the rock; to left, the rock side of the dromos; above, stones behind Wall C and possibly its top stones. On the floor of the dromos is a sample along the cut stone of a stratum distinguished all across at this level, seeming to come down over this is the stratum of different earth cleared under the loose stony fill toward the back of the dromos. This is supposed to have been really all one with the stratum of the sample the along the cut stone, which here was not distinguished quite soon enough. The diagonal edge of the upper earth as preserved is due to the diagonal cut of sample which I thought would show the center line of the dromos of Tomb 1 (but it turned out not to be a separate dromos apparently.) This earth over the floor of the dromos rising to the back may indicate rather