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 87 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 87 of 100

771 Tomb 8 cleared to about 3 before entrance shovelful bone steep slope. side turned down cleaned of earth very loose soft red sandy silt. not clean - mostly of earth mixture to donkey coffee seen to brown- wish air coarser kind of silt to be could sieve to coarse graygray silt-like rock & rock of roof in floor of door tilted slightly down cliff over door above stratum 2

Right page

Tomb 8 772 lies 146 cm. below top of door 7 Tomb 8 on surface on stratum 2 of earth - (top stratum) covered by a #88ds 27/5/41 (seen on them in a 23 a bought to west #23 thinly laid 4. Jug shape

Margin left: P 1540 1638

high spring narrow neck - flat base - black on the dark (drawing) 1.00 greenish covered by fallen havara - freely - pieces of havara run about 1 ct. thick everywhere termed pile (consists) the north further part of fallen the wall appears off to Sand pile that of rock. continues

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

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