Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 15·July 1940–April 1941

G. H. McFadden, Ayios Ermoyenis III Jul. 1940–Apr. 1941George H. McFadden

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

Scan 20 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 15 (G. H. McFadden, Ayios Ermoyenis III Jul. 1940–Apr. 1941), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 15, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 20 of 72

P1493437 Tomb 5 154. Mouth of unguentarium in similar fill lying 5 cm. below floor. See photo #1431

L357155. Lamp. Broneer type 18 C. Hellenistic 100 BC. Unadorned lat. 15. C. Lying in fill clean floor. 104 cm. above

[red ink: Gl 177] 156 Broken glass pipe lying on top of layer of light sand here consisting of clean out of floor fill of tall of roof or some of coffins on wall. 29 cm above floor.

157 Bronze fragment in place of arrow head in vault schwarz cont p. 444

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438 T5 July 16 cont fr. p. 432 Diary and roof must have fallen later on. The entire interior with the exception of the dromos probably caved in and the remains of the first plundered body removed to sarcophagus, or we were laid before flooring and roof fell replaced. At a later period after the bodies had decomposed some one emptied the sarcophagus, threw the glasses & bones aside on the [illegible] floor and reentered there with 20 or more of the objects seen to belong to date of the last plundering

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

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