Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 14·May–July 1940

G. H. McFadden, Ayios Ermoyenis II May–Jul. 1940George H. McFadden

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

Scan 30 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 14 (G. H. McFadden, Ayios Ermoyenis II May–Jul. 1940), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 14, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 30 of 99

PIT 50Scale 1:50

Drawing: plan of tomb pit and dromos; labels: bed rock, rock, Bed rock, Dromos, 8.05, 2.50 cm., 205, 205

Mixed fill of sandy earth & broken frag of stone - disturbed in present types - no clear strata - stratificatot layer on clay - began to come to fd of 250 cm into light of cut into soft red calcare rock

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June 13 Filling s. e. tomb Pit 48 & n. w. locat. See p. 29, 39 & 71 & Also 57 No. 5. all tombs of clip-chamber type & have been plundered - the s. e. tomb certainly in recent times - dry loose earth & floos & very little found

June 14 Refilling pits 37 & 59. as coffins reached on both at depth of 720 cm.

Pit 37p. 23, 24, 51
" 59p. 37, 85
Cont p. 260

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

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