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 57 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.

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(23/VI/41) (Bones of Tomb 8 - removal) Level of right femur -1.52 In second box; arms and legs. In third box; extraneous bones (Level of bone north of chest, -1.45.) Charcoal underneath. All bones of SE group removed 23/VI, also the stratum beneath, down to the floor.

24/VI/41 On central group after removal of high legs yesterday: nothing lay under these legs save the north end of a long thin straight bone of which the extremities were not preserved. (Probably radius or ulna not .012, preserved length .235) The fill on which they lay cleared to hard floor of tomb. The remaining group still do not reconstruct into anything very clear. Consist of: the two patches of cranium epsilon and zeta, of which the one further west has a bit of gold leaf embedded in it; an radius or

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(24/VI/41) (Bones of Tomb 8 - removal) ulna above mentioned which is north of the east patch of cranium at a slightly higher level; in the bare bone patch west of the three items here mentioned, bones laid mostly like the legs of higher level removed yesterday, i.e. a little oblique to the side walls of the tomb (NW & SE if the tomb is E-W). Beginning with the SW side, W of W cranium, next the cranium possibly a clavicle, further west some ribs; next NE, upper and lower arm bones (of which the hand would be at NW end) and beyond a fragment of femur? upper end; next NE, beyond some bits, either another arm (as previously called) or a leg, but with extremity in opposite (SE) direction; next NE, seems to be remains of back bone; next NE another leg (?), upper and lower bones, with extremity SE; next NE some ribs and a humerus, over which lies obliquely a fragmentary radius or ulna (?). A bit of another sticks out from beside the femur

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

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