Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 2·May–July 1941

G. H. McFadden, Ayios Ermoyenis V May–Jul. 1941George H. McFadden

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

Scan 16 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 2 (G. H. McFadden, Ayios Ermoyenis V May–Jul. 1941), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 2, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 16 of 98

Tomb 8

[checkmarkM 338 69] Iron fragment lying in dromos & of e earth mixed of chamber debris 163 cm. below top of jamb. Crumbled all thro' at T8 69 time of removal. 3/6/41 iron in rotted wood probably from coffin or bier more probably.

[checkmark70] 2 bowls belong forer - one

[checkmarkSt. 509] Gypsum base profiled - in dromos with rotted coffin & wrought iron nails under coffin - found in gravel about 1/4 - 1/3 full - mostly sand

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Tomb 8 - S-E with earth placed there in ancient times to alabaster roughly joined. Chamber slope 1/2 to full.

3/6/41cleared First 50 cleared in chamber to rotted traces at 169 cm. below top of jamb.

[checkmark71 Gl 63] Fragments of glass cup on north rock to under rope damaged in excavation ca. 117 41 cm. at 157 below level of top of jamb.

3/6/41

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

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