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 58 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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(24/VI/41) (Bones of Tomb 8 - removal) of the east mentioned leg. Taking out the bones: Levels (almost down to resting surface): Beside humerus furthest SW , 1.52 Between radius and ulna of same arm 1.55 Beside right radius or ulna N of cranium 1.43 Beside humerus on NE edge of patella 1.47

Immediately under the crushed cranium further W (zeta), 9 gold leaves or frags., most or all of them of the large size (of the two types in Tomb 1).

NE group Take out first skull gamma. Find near E side of fill under it frags. of a lamp, with voluted nozzle (#140)

Margin left: #140 tauouquet

Phot.: frags. of lamp with remaining frags of skull gamma and also skull beta. Level of lamp -1.54. a stone a little bigger than [margin left: Film VG 20.41 [red ink: pub. No 93]]

Right page

(24/VI/41) (Bones of Tomb 8 - removal) a man's fist under the north side of skull gamma. Under it more of gold #33 Level of skull gamma -1.555. Take other, higher, bones heading W. The humerus [insertion above: (See VG Film 20.8)] on the skull alpha (see p.906, top) lay at -1.46 (highest part of its resting surface). Take arm attributed to skull β; part of humerus rested on small stone, level -1.49. [Stone presumably part of pebble roof fill.] Phot. of more of gold leaves (of #33) as they extend under the position of the bones attributed to skull gamma, and further west,101 called #101 bis. Level -1.54 (17 leaves or pieces). [margin left: Film VG 20.40]

P.M. Clearing over and among leg bones below, find pebble and chavara down as far as knees or a little further. Beyond (W of) the lowlying femur cleared emerging under fill yesterday, anothbroken and bent in two. North of east end of femur [inserted above: former], pieces of pelvis certainly out of position. for skeleton with skull alpha. Remove skull beta (wrapped [margin left: (For clearing fill, see VG Fil 20.7) See Film VG 20.39 See Film VG 20.38 for skeleton as a whole at this point.]

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

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