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 19 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 19 of 95

1233 | Diary NJ 64-e Continuing to dig into apupsi - to Lakkia cippus find fragms. of cippus & in col. & of Cinerary urn propolijum will not be long. Nothing found yet. depth of 530 cm.

Dec. 4 Finish 3 cms. on NJ 64-e all down to Lakkia taken off to about 550 to 6 m. Deposit of pots & lamps & of great help but for our luck caved in rock, as often in former covon [illegible] pots in NJ w dug. Type w2 & w3 little gravel & many large stones to very much gravel

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Diary | 1234 and many rocks the rest of the usual rocks in the bayeux at night depth of devel of light & mainly chavara,

Dec 5 Removed tent which had probably been blown in. NJ 64-e at 2.80 m. below surface. Never saw such a thick wall Top & probably from decayed soft rock all & halfway between above just about 6 m. Very difficult to dig ground Quit at noon on account of rain.

Dec 6 Rain continues Tomb cleared off by 10.00 AM.

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

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