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 79 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 79 of 103

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Photograph

18.15

DROMOS OF TOMBS 1 AND 9, AND LONG CUT STONE (SEE ALSO ??5 ON P. 181

[margin left: TOP STONES →/ OF WALL C BACK OF WALL C → ROCK CUT END OF DROMOS → ROCK CUT SIDE OF DROMOS →] [photograph] 18.29 | [photograph] 18.31 (see also p. 162)

Photograph

18.27

Photograph

18.30[photograph]
18.28

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(5/VI/41) of the dromos without complete clearing. as seen, it covers the corner of the long cut stone.

Digging away this earth. Contains almost no sherds. A few stones (pieces of cleavara). Removing it uncovers more stones in ← · · the stony foundation of Wall C resting on rock at end of dromos or possibly (as Christi thinks) on a step of the dromos. The top of the wall possibly went as a sill for the dromos. Edges on dromos side worn or smoothend down particularly in 2 places corresponding more or less with sides of dromos — where ropes worked? (Though wall not to exactly at rt. angles to dromos) Cleaning stones of this wall over dromos.

[margin left: earth covering floor + lower dromos [illegible] (most of dromos empty of connection 10 sherds: 2nd BC?]

[margin left: P.185, 13 | 5/VI/41 Th. 43/75 Tombs 9 & 1 Sherds from Wall C: Back corner]

18.27-31 see opposite Photos. of the long stone, ^of 1 & 9 dromos, back of Wall C which faces on it. Under the long stone rock has been cleared, bottom of side of dromos. A small sample of the layer of earth over the rock left in corner under the stone and by entrance. A lump of pebbly earth - fallen rock? - left on floor!

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

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