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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 3·Undated

Ayios Ermoyenis, Glass (Gl)

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

Scan 30 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 3 (Ayios Ermoyenis, Glass (Gl)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 3, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 30 of 85

Gl 51 (duplicate number) 63-1-115

variegated glass alabastron

horizontal lugs

opaque light blue, with alternating white and yellow lines; traces suggest that much if not all of the light blue may have been covered with dark would have been blue(?), a substance which as preserved has spots of copper color; the surface then covered with contiguous bands and waves of white-yellow-dark (blue or black?); handles then dark; rim yellow

hole 0.007 long in bottom; otherwise intact

H 0.077 diam. 0.031 rim diam. 0.024

St Hermogenes 1940 Tr.43, Tomb 1, #11 at -6.444 VG pp.7,9,11,24,189

Drawing: photograph] Film Vg 13 1:4

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

Objects named on this pageAyios Ermoyenis (St Hermogenes)

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