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 57 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.

Page 523Scan 57 of 72

PIT 84

Drawing: plans and sections of pit, tunnel, and tomb; labels: Section | Section | rock | rifled Tomb | Tomb door lintel | tunnel | tunnel | 2m > | 1 no streaks sandy soil | similar sandy soil very few stones | 2 | 3 mixed stratum earth | Jamb | fallen chavara fr roof | 4 | floor | ancient floor | mostly chavara broken up chunks | Tomb door lintel | UNDUG | Jamb | looks recently disturbed] tunnel to east | 1.20

see F 68: 16

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Dear 19522 pp

Getting in dig pits here to get v. deep foreman began to find fault with it extended 83 to northeast 3.30 m to cutting in rock. Section pp 529 (a-b) looks on floors of buried tomb or possibly a dromos. + fragment of pottery late lump D. Connecting 87 w. pit 90 to find rifled extension of dromos to 109 of 85. Reached cager in 73 at 11 AM. Stopped 920 after digging only 2 hours as the native boys who dig here decided he was dug here before we came - without success - Stopped 90 for present at 11:40 things dug little into 5th stratum removing some stone. Began S. of pit 72 will call it 73. cont p 526

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

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