Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 9·1952 and 1954

G. H. McFadden, Kaloriziki 1952 + Benson 1954George H. McFadden and Jack L. Benson

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

Scan 3 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 9 (G. H. McFadden, Kaloriziki 1952 + Benson 1954), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 9, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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DIARY 31 March 5 Apr. 52 For Tomb X, Kaloriziki see Apollo Note Book pp. 3040 ff.

Margin left: Trench / 1

Dug Trench 1 to depth of - all appears to have been an intrusive pit; the fill being quite the same throughout - sandy soil mixed with patches of darker surface soil and bits of chavara averaging walnut and fist size; few stones but some up to foot size. See Film 166-13 Handful of sherds - Geometric & bucchero. No other finds. The rock is sometimes αμμoβραχο and sometime χαβαρα - stratified thus. Dug down to bedrock the intrusive pit was sunk into rock. It was so soft that rigger failed to realize that it was rock

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

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