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 90 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 90 of 100

777 Tomb 8

26 (cont.) found a cu. of cleat sand on nave ledge west side of dromos one of six cleats in earth on cleat in E. of tomb. It is trailing. Found cypric Syllabique sign on jar. It is like the other. Upon neck -

Drawing: arrow-like or cross sign] at mouth

jar in 4 cm of white dust. Plenty of bones under covered by flat narrow slab it spans from wall to top of dromos. It is broken. It thrust on wall earth falls through. Slab in no way touched

Right page

Tomb 8 778

of tomb. Amphora is half of amphora height 10 cm. and 164 cm of earth on floor below top of door. Painfully thin. Amphora lies in stratum 1 & 2 resembles a larger stratum 4 below None of the amphora touches the pot.

P1542 / P1627 / 295/140527 a & 3 sherds fill in gap that was left on floor #27 lying under the roots & on a level 137 cm. below datum. earth is falling in stratum 1:41 belowstratum 3 is 155 cm. [one small sherd joins on rim of no 113]

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

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