Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 1·April–May 1941

G. H. McFadden, Ayios Ermoyenis IV Apr.–May 1941George H. McFadden

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

Scan 65 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 1 (G. H. McFadden, Ayios Ermoyenis IV Apr.–May 1941), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 1, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page 66Scan 65 of 100

[illegible] only on dromos & not red soil (never found lumps) So ground was cleared [to?] dromos & [red?] soil laid on (both here & in dips elsewhere) in west end of dromos sample 24 has been being taken on east side of wall 2 [of?] earth [illegible] The doosway not yet covered where fallen roof - clear the dark grey of clay against the [plaster?] or # 4 is lying on the clay but below the [illegible] red soil on dromos.

35 30. [pl?] 73 - South [cooling?] ya of tr 1st stratum removed [17?] = 400 ap 9 [ap?] 200

36 31. Same looking S to SW cont p 737

Right page

Tomb 8 pp 725-728 This differs from sample that stealing of course is before that of roof. Fallen roof covered the craft [form?] the earth being 1st. Hard could be that revision in the dromos of a former stele to level of fallen roof. Chavara underneath the rim of pot lie direct on stratum 2 part mixed w. chavara below rock but mainly chavara.

rim 034 cm below line top of door tomb or dromos.

Cont p 732

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

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