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 85 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 85 of 100

767 Tomb 8 20 (cont) fr p 766 The earth found at the ceiling differed from stratum 2 Lumps of stratum 2 trapped mixed with chavara and homogeneous soil. Under the chavara stratum in 2 a burnt could be seen. Color of heavy earth immediately below laps & filled with rocks were stratified & there was a level of 42 cm below the ceiling at NE door jamb, not lair on which it sat on now. Stratum 1a below 1 and over 7 solved in extent from 2 m east of west wall of tomb to south that is fr 20 dist.

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1529 / P 1539 / P 1535 / # / 64 / # 137 / [red pencil: Pel No / 213Tomb 8 768 ought very even at 70 cm below the floor or there about. Anterior to 7. 8- High chavara lumps which is not so consistent as in 8 nothing can be safely resolved & perhaps stratum of thin chavara layer off the floor on south then on other side. Levels and the presence of thin tamped strata complicated same investigation when tomb or stratum occurs. ] [blue ink: Note Book No's - 21, 64, & 137]

20 April 1941 Ore avg. profile was drawn, neck Sas on p 764 Large pieces in rubble layer fr top consisted of 2 fallen boulders at the end of passage. cont p 769

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

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