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 94 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 186Scan 94 of 103

Sherd lots from Trench 43 etc., VG's 1941 excavations (from ticket)

1.) 19, 20/v/41 Tr. 43, S cut. Upper, brown earth to 0.75 below surface. See p. 93.

2.) Tr. 43, S cut. From .75 to ±/ 1.20, w second stratum. See p. 93.

3.) 22/v/41 Tr. 43, sherds from S cut deposit. w See p. 105

4.) 19/v/41 Tr. 43/75 1st stratum (to depth ca. 1.00). See p. 95 see p. 115-116 4 via) 28-29/v/41 1st stratum. upper pavement over wall A + floor E. outside dromos(?)

5.) Tr. 43/75 2nd stratum, ca. 1.00 to 1.60, with mostly under (?) fallen stones. 29/v/41 Tr. 43 and 43/75 2nd stratum among stones. See p. 109.

6.) 24/v/41 Tr. 43/75 3rd stratum (p. 101) to depth 2.00+ . See p. 110 See p. 109.

7.) Tr. 43/75 3rd stratum from about -2.00 down to in mixed unexc. depth (change of earth [illegible]? See p. 110 See p. 113.

8.) 30/v to 3/vi/41 Tr. 43/75 mostly in to Tr. 43 Dromos (?) fill - soft earth under stony stratum (loose stones mostly). See p. 114

9.) 30/v/41 Tr. 43/75 Clearing N side of Wall. A See p. 129

10.) 3/vi/41 Tr. 43/75 Dromos of Tomb 9, below proper floor level. See p. 135

11.) 3/vi/41 Tr. 43/75 Clearing for N end of dromos of Tomb 1 (apparently undisturbed) See p. 143.

12.) "Ticket written 24/vii/41" Tr. 43/75 loose fill in dromos. See p. 151.

13.) 5/vi/41 Tomb 9 & 1 dromos. - Sherds from earth covering floor and lower stones of Wall C. See p. 156

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14.) 7/vi/41 <and later> Tr. 43/75 Fill of well (?) to ca. 1.50 below top of long cut stone... to 2.23 below ston. See p. 163.

15.) 29/v/41 [Tr. 43,] extension over oblique stonework. Stroma and under, see p. 120. See p. 119.

16.) 30/v/41 Tr. 43/75 Fill S of Wall A, from w stroma <?> at 1.00 <level of its top>, to white layer (unexc). See p. 122

17.) 30/v/41 Tr. 43/75 (S of wall A) Burnt patch. (on top of white layer). See p. 125

18.) 30-31/v/41 Tr. 43/75 [S of ?] Outside Wall A, white layer and under, to 1.40 below top of Wall A. See p. 135

19.) to 4/vi/41 Tr. 43 extension over oblique stonework of Tomb 1. Loose stony fill E of sample <& p. 124> along Wall B. See p. 161

20.) 4/vi/41 Tr. 43 extension. Samples along wall B, softer earth on either side of hard <whitish> cmp in center. From surface as found this year. See p. 147 See p. 140

21.) 4-5/vi/41 w Tr. 43 extension. Whitish earth (dromos fill?) distinguished and photographed down middle of extension. See p. 155.

22.) 5/vi/41 Tr. 43 extension. Earth on either side and back of "dromos fill". See p. 159

23.) 5/vi/41 Tr. 43 extension. Stony center of intrusion (?) bottom of trench. See p. 160.

24.) 7/vi/41 Tr. 43 extension. Fill of lower (crosswise) dromos, from ca. 1.20 below edge of upper dromos - P. 164-165 - With enclosed bag from bottom - See p. 165 (cont. end of Vol. II, p. 379)

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