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 88 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 88 of 103

Margin left: D.176 (24).

Left page

[photograph] FROM SW 20.3[photograph] FROM SW 20.33[photograph] FROM SE 20.42
[photograph] FROM SW 20.45[photograph] FROM SW 20.34[photograph] FROM SE 20.43
[photograph] FROM W 20.5[photograph] FROM NW 20.2[photograph] FROM SE 20.35
[photograph] FROM W 20.4[photograph] FROM NW 20.1[photograph] FROM SE 20.44

Right page

Margin left: TOMB 9 AFTER CLEARING, BEFORE ANY REMOVAL

Margin left: * Between pots 5 and 6-7 -1.10 is the skull E that is disarranged

[illegibleocc. to bones went in pots] 26/vi/41

[margin right: pp. 56-57, 96, 100 174 108, 110, 116, 148 159 (phot.) q. pp. 148-150, 167-168]

Tomb 9 now see opp. more or less drawn and photographed, removal to be started, saving of bones only those of heads. Estimated no. of persons buried here, at least 5 or 6: A) the one who fell over the bench; B) the young person (ribs) w. cram beside him or her; C) the skeleton down the middle of the tomb; D) the legs beyond toward the wall; E, F, apparently at least 2 more sets of legs: SE Among the bones piled at the back are a jaw with teeth and a cranium frag. Levels have been taken before removal, and written on the plan. They are of the top of bone or pot unless otherwise specified (some pots picked up and level taken underneath). [pencil note inserted, blurred: (copied from plan to list here, and check no. of pot against plan) double in one nest of pots]

1.footless fusiform unguentarium -1.08 [pencil: P 1564] [pencil, right: p. 167]

2.cylindrical vase, flaring lip -1.055 + [illegible] frag 20 cm. [illegible] -1.119 [pencil: P 1565] [pencil, right: p. 96, 149]

3.footless fusiform unguentarium -1.03 [pencil: P 1566] [pencil, right: p. 149]

4.jug, pinched rim -1.00 + [illegible] (-1.013) [pencil: P 1567] [pencil, right: p. 149]

5.footless vase w. projection on shoulder -1.00 ? bone level? -1.028 [pencil: P 1568] [pencil, right: p. 149]

6.[ditto mark] no level taken [pencil: P 1569] [pencil, right: p. 149]

7.fusiform unguentarium w. no. 6? .96 + dis (no - .991) [pencil: P 1570] [pencil, right: #21 under this p. 149]

8.footless fus. [pencil: P 1571] [pencil, right: p. 149, p. 150]

9.fus. unguentarium no level [pencil: P 1572] [pencil, right: p. 149]

10.clay object? n. b. this disarranged T 252 [pencil: ?] big flat tile? before drawing, so exact position and broken not known. q. p. 150

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

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