Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 4·November 1941–March 1949

G. H. McFadden, Ayios Ermoyenis VII Nov. 1941–Mar. 1949George H. McFadden

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

Scan 18 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 4 (G. H. McFadden, Ayios Ermoyenis VII Nov. 1941–Mar. 1949), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 4, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 18 of 95

1231 | Diary Nov. 29 Saturday [illegible] depth to ca 3 m. large stones [illegible] down into 64 - near (64.2)

Nov. 30Sunday Dec. 1 + 2 Dug to depth of 460 cm. at edge [illegible] pit a cut [illegible] edge appeared at about 410 cm. Hole became very hard with [illegible] sand p [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] 450 in great lumps appearing in [illegible]

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Dec. 3 Dig a trench from pit 1/edge to about the 3 [illegible] tree to follow rock. Lime concr- retions of course - Tsiakkilo. To south gravel found + we shall excavate [illegible] to south. Trench fallen [illegible] to south southeast. Above in [illegible] might be caved in [illegible] of a rock cut tomb. or possibly the road is here. No rocks cut wall of Bt 64 yet discovered clearly so far.

Dec. 3 Removing (cr. Dec 1 + 2) rough rock against south side of large stones in pit 64. 2 up.

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

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