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 89 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 89 of 99

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Diary

gold leaf that floor is respectable. First plunderer in cave could not have been clothed in gold leaf.

Impossible [illegible] knowing [heart?] [illegible] knocked off from the ledge. The gold leaf on that footprint points to fellow who came in to remove again the bone of the left [foot?]. Left was moved.

High accumulation of earth road [illegible] two to four meters the find. [illegible] find at different

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Diary 376 levels in this accumulation in [illegible] the impending [illegible] mined that in the very first burial the pot burials = the dog burials & the burial in [plunderer?] who burrowed the corpse could perhaps pay for the floor for a peculiar water accumulation of century & not pictured yet the earth might be considered to form or assuming [reform?] a natural silting in which the plunder would have found in the cave the every thing along the east wall would have

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

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