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 86 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.

Page 170Scan 86 of 103

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TR. 43 EXTENSION, TRANSVERSE DROMOS, SW DOOR SEE P. 171

TR. 43 EXT. TRANSVERSE DROMOS, N DOOR SEE P 171-2

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19/VI/41 In days subsequent to 9VI and/ 10/VI, odd moments of work in Tr. 43 etc. by men not needed in G. Mc.F.'s holes, proceeded a little lower in the well (?) behind the cut stone. Cleared to the bottom the dromos running crosswise to that of Tomb 1 in Tr. 43 extension, finding not only the door mentioned on p. 165 but another roughly opposite to it, the dromos taking a turn toward the W below its [illegible] roof where it cuts the position of the dromos of Tomb 1. As things turn out, it is most unfortunate we did not cut down along the presumable median line of the Tomb 1 dromos, as then it might have been clear whether the upper or the lower dromos here was first cleared cut. The stony loose fill apparently went on down, below the end of the Tomb 1 dromos as preserved. Christi's suggestion here is that the Tomb 1 people made a step down here to the 1.10^[-]1.20 level mentioned p. 165. Here seems to be a change of earth fill in the thin curtain-like scarp left between this trench and the Tomb 1 stomion. The earth below

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

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