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 82 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 188Scan 82 of 87

Ins 8 frgg [mentions] phot 6 XII 35

ΕΔΟΞ ΚΟΙΣΣΤΙ ΤΗΣΡΩΜΗ [illegible] [illegible] Π ΝΟΜΟΝΧΡΥΣ[illegible] ΣΤΙ ΔΕ ΑΥΤΟΥ ΚΑ [illegible] [illegible] ΚΟ ΙΕΡ ΤΟΥΑΠΟ ΠΕΡ[..]ΡΥΣΩ[illegible] ΓΡΑΨΑΙΕΙΣΣ[illegible] ΑΥΤΩ ΙΕΡΩ[illegible] ΟΤΙΤΟΙΣ ..[illegible] ΤΟΥ ΠΡΥΤΑΝΕΙΟΥ ΕΜΟΥΣΙΝΧΑΡΙΤ[illegible] Vacat

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Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates North First find frag. of pithos inscribed: [illegible] [illegible] Ι [illegible] ΑΠΟΛΛ[illegible] } cut in clay while soft ΛΟCΚΕΡΑΜΕUS KAION scratched

clay wall 0.22 thick diam. c 0.76 98 inside / 1.02 outside Cesnola Cyp. p 343 found on the site "fragments of a very large earthenware jar [inscri-] bed in Greek letters with a dedication to Apollo Hylates... found beneath the pavement of the temple" mm This is # 1908 (p. 549) in Myres' Catalogue Ins is on a large store-vase of coarse late red pottery incised in one long line around the shoulder while the clay was soft in late letters probably Graeco-Roman; fragmentary, in three sections. [blank space] Ἀπόλλωνι Ὑλάτῃ κα[ὶ uncert. lacuna Πο]λυκ- ρέαντος Τίμων[... εὐ]χήν. [illegible] ον [ήμον]

Cesnola p 343 Temple of Apollo 79' × 32' cols of white marble + bluish granite Diams - largest 3' 2" next 2' 0" smallest 16" Some of these last stood on their bases Dug along eastern fndtn for sevral weeks Laid bare part of the pavement under wh a few fcs o the inscribed jar. within the area of the temple several inscriptions in one of wh occur names Ptolemy Philadelphus + Cleopatra angular building which may have been "Near the temple are the ruins of a rectangular building which may have been the abode of the priests of Apollo."

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

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