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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 40 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 40 of 85

63-1-120 (duplicate number) Gl 56 variegated glass alabastron

rather rough horizontal lugs

opaque blue with dark rather glossy surface save toward neck where it seems to have been bleached by the HCl used in cleaning (note difference in taste, also that pre-cleaning photograph shows deposit about the neck); the spiral of bands and waves in thick well-preserved yellow; handles blue, rim blue with end disappearing of yellow spiral intact

H 0.12 diam. 0.032 rim diam. 0.026

St Hermogenes 1940 Tr. 43, Tomb 1, #52 at -6.419 VG pp. 12, 22, 24, 188

Photograph

1:4 Film vq 13 (preclearing)

4 also 13.3

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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