Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 5·March–April 1949

G. H. McFadden, Ayios Ermoyenis VIII Mar.–Apr. 1949George H. McFadden

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

Scan 12 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 5 (G. H. McFadden, Ayios Ermoyenis VIII Mar.–Apr. 1949), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 5, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 12 of 39

1421

Drawing: architectural profile; labels: .56, .66, .99, .56

Scale 1:20 Looking west Tomb monument euthenteria

Right page

DIARY 1422 March 29 cont. Began digging p. 1413, z trat. 3 consisting of sand, stones & chunks of chavara. Digging Grid E-H, north 18-20, area around well strat. p. 1405-3 Removed, in Pit 60 p 1413 - 3, Grid A east to pavement down to large chunks of chavara which at first looked like bedrock but which were found to be mixed with sand. Finished removing Grid H-I north 0-12, strat 1 @ and north 12-18, strat 2 (about same and at same level as strat. 1 @) and began 16-24 strat 2 [circled: b] silt with very few stones.

30 March49

Began removing Grid A-y north 8-12, strat. [2?] (debris under silt) See Film 115 - 25 thru 27. Began removing H-I north 7-12 strat 1 [circled: a] surface soil. Continuing to dig behind terrace wall of Pit 60 from 1.15 to Continuing to remove Grid H-I north 16-21 strat. 2 [circled: b] - consisting here only of ploughed up silt - Also concont. p. 1424

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

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