Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 10·1939 and 1947

J. H. Young, II Atmeidan 1939, 1947John Howard Young

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

Scan 11 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 10 (J. H. Young, II Atmeidan 1939, 1947), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

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

Unnumbered pageScan 11 of 92

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Drawing: section labeled B, Γ, Δ, E, Z, H, Θ; WS; 1, 2, 2A, 3, 4, 5, 5A

Trench 1, W profile B-Θ \\\ - clay ||| - sea-mud. - dark brown sand & silt (1) - light-red sand & silt (2) [written over: [illegible] red top-soil (2)] - light red, heavy pack (3) [written over: [illegible] silt & [illegible] (3)] - dark red pack, (2a) apparent only in B'-E' (see previous page) - dark red pack (4) - with cut to west. Filled with XA, 5A chyrs (4b) - upper layer of chyps in A'-Δ'

May 30th Photo 8+9 - 1, Δ-H from I, showing wall in Z, a lower wall, the lower fragment of which wall fragments have been approximately explored; that at the W has been traced over. Photo 10: The wall on the W side 90-Z, vertical to main wall, & faces main wall E of trench.

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Trench 1

In B-Δ, strata 4 showed, after B, a difference in upper & lower levels - a difference each about 8 cm. high. The sherds are so separated.

May 31Photo ii, 17 - view of A-A' - Δ-Δ' with focus 4 removed from B-Δ, and B'-Δ' cleared partially to 3, partially to 2A. In these strata are embedded several large wall stones.

June 2ndWork was resumed here by Mehmet while we surveyed this morning. Photo ii, 25 A'-Δ' with strata 3 (really here the second) in A', strata 5 in B', strata 4 with two large wall blocks in Γ', and the same with clay coat on wall in Δ'

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

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