Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 3·July–November 1941

G. H. McFadden, Ayios Ermoyenis VI Jul.–Nov. 1941George H. McFadden

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

Scan 47 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 3 (G. H. McFadden, Ayios Ermoyenis VI Jul.–Nov. 1941), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 3, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page 1090Scan 47 of 96

Film 75 11 5. showing - Pit 64 p. 141 - top of 3a. Before removing robbery. Looking down from north 11.30 AM 14/10/41

12 6. Pit 64 - p 143 - top 75^2 showing pottery Film (other ?) in sand & below (C4) revealed & c. not yet touched - & some of other undisturbed. have been disturbed. 15/10/41 10.15 AM.

13 7. Pit 64 - p 147 showing p147 B in situ after Stratum 5 - hard filler & boulders with floor cleared & wall of C one floated - also bare NE wall & stone cont'd 1096

Right page

Underline: Clearing

Oct 13 Removed pottery (shaped without perhaps other antique vessel) from St 147 - 4 west profl. Standing for most part in Stratum 5 - Film 75 - 1 - 3. Stratum 4 clear sand - 5 white with gypsum-scale coming out in hard cakes under flow of quicksand. Top of 4 is brown & hard also of 5 - 5 being debris over 4 (or part of 5) was [illegible] debris of quarried quarrylings through in clay. Large flat stone - rough.

Oct 14_ Continued digging p 143 - 5 Stratum - below sand (C4) quite a hard scummy out

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

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