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 39 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.

Page 82Scan 39 of 48

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TOMB 40 tombs, at Kaloriziki. They were covered with a very thin coat of sandstone mud plaster (& chavara), also the floor, which was about level, and the benchboth side and top. There is a slight recess opposite the entrance at the N west end of which is a slab on the floor- broken. It is sembedded in the sandstone floor. See plan & photos and sections. It may not be in situ but its position in the corner of the recess, implies that it is. It was found broken. If it belongs here then very possibly Socrates & his colleagues broke it in 1903. The scarp or outcrop slopes steeply down to the field below from the top of the roughly hewn step. The floor has hole in center this is dug by Socrates, at least

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

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