Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 5·June 1934–December 1935

B. H. Hill, I Site levels June 1934–Dec. 1935Bert Hodge Hill

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 55 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 5 (B. H. Hill, I Site levels June 1934–Dec. 1935), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 5, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page 110Scan 55 of 87

Mosaic room [inserted: Tr. 27] 7.80 x 4.40

At entrance just outside border 3-line ins. in red on white ground

Ἀντὶ λίθων μεγάλων ἀντὶ στερεοῖο σιδήρου χαλκοῦ τε ξανθοῖο καὶ αὐτοῦ ἀντ' ἀδάμαντος οἵδε δόμοι ζώσαντο πολὺλλιτα σήματα Χριστοῦ

Three red lines above & 2 red + 1 black. (wh border of diaper pattern in black & white

Panel in border at S. end

EΞΕΔΡΗΝ ΘΑΛΑΜΟΝ ΤΕ EΨΩ [illegible] N[illegible]ΔΕΛΦΑΙ -

Αἰδὼ Σωφροσύνη τε καὶ [illegible] - κομέουσιν [illegible]

Drawing: plan] 715 + 23 x 1.93

black

[illegible]

Drawing: measurements and letters; labels: Apsis of entrance ins., T of ἀντὶ στερεοῖο, ☧, O of αὐτοῦ, first A of πολὺλλιτα, 147, < 55, < 30 >, to border, < 35 >

Right page

entrance 10.00 x 4.06 stairway hall 13.50 x 3.50 foot of stairs (overlapping entrance)

Drawing: mosaic border pattern with notes; labels: length black, 4 single block tr., outside border, fourth block, 4 single block, span of 70 & a cut 9 in 1st, single blue line, (drawing), (drawing), (drawing), enclosing 17 units turns at L [illegible], Squares 10 x 10 tesserae, with 13 arranged thus: (drawing) red in dark squares & red in then at center. white in Th- white ones

+ E (drawing) T I

Drawing: cross pattern] T A E +

O "OTTAPI[illegible]LLA LLIANLIII WNEKΠOΔOΣEYΣTOΛIOC + PHC EΠEΛHCAT O AΛΛ' APA KAI THC + WCLOYTRAXAPICITAMENOC + Δ_ETOKOYRIONWCTOTE ΦOIBOC ∷ ZYXIH ∷ EHKEN YΠHNEMIHN ∷ 45 high

[illegible] ἐκ ποδὸς Pall. Ant 7.388 ἐκ ποδός = ἐκ ποδῶν φανή (Pind. Nem.) = out of the way. or = ἐκ ποδῶν follow in the track = akin to him? Polyb. Diod. etc

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

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