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 59 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 59 of 72

527 PIT 81 Plan Scale 1:50

Drawing: plan with arrow marked N; labeled: wall, wall

Drawing: section

Surface Soil Sandy, small stones 1. wall wall rough masonry 2. sandy soil + gravel See D.L.'s drawing + V.G.'s photo 3. rather clean fine sand brought by river [illegible]βάθος

April 10 rock

Right page

Diary to p 526

April 15 Stopped Pit 86 at 10 AM the top of rock [illegible] [illegible] of hard floor of a pithoi, chavara + sand at 3. p.m. stopped. 15 resumed pit 86- again at 3.30 Iliffe drawing + photographing. I am removing large boulders in eastern end (4th shoot) Cleaning burial in Pit 85 - Jordanis. - stopped at 12.00.

April 16 Iliffe + Drayton arrived, last night + have started them today on p. drawing plan of burials in Pit 75. Reached floor of tomb in pit 77 with four big pithoi apparently intact, an pot of soft [illegible] below the vases found 2 days ago. Cont'd. 538

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

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