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 30 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.

Page 855Scan 30 of 98

Diary

a working level usually bottom 7 & yet clean without sand or none or a water dipped [illegible] wash. 3 below plinth. sand of 7 is very clean [insertion: 4 + 5] end of 4 [illegible] where fallen roof cha[illegible] or continued covering narrowly lived. Is [illegible] on ever running in for [illegible] well & cumputer. [illegible] earth with clap & rocks people would have been [glad] to even the flood out to walk on [illegible] as it may be dangerously slippery. Yet there is a third 4 & 5 sometimes.

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Diary (2) earth & rock. completely this as well as along the opposite wall. Apr. 1942

The sand stratum here goes on everywhere but is very thin in d & on a small of a small s. l. to the gap between c & [illegible] (see [illegible] drawing) a & d are hard to distinguish from 1 & 4. Objects 1 & are on [illegible] & occasionally partway thro. The 2 walls to north & d are under & towards the [illegible] 5 & are below that of the remaining walls and flat level of [illegible] over

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

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