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 81 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 81 of 85

Lentoid dark blue glass gem, lenticoid w. flat bottom, d. 0.013 m. Pale green ovier incrustation over pale blue iridescence over deeper blue. Green coloring appears when held to light. Pit 44, 1.00 m. depth. 16-4-40. Q.Cts VII p. 72, no. 14.

Top of clear glass unguentarium. Pit 64, 1.50 - 1.85 (abt) from surface. Q.Cts VII, p. 485, no. 48.

Blue glass bead; blunt cylinder with large hole; D., 0.009 m.; H., 0.008 m.; broken; disintegrating + iridescent. Q.Cts VII, p. 649, no. 20. Found in earth returned for sieving from find spot for no. 17-19 (Pit 73, ca. 1 meter east of sarcophagus). Two bone heads found with the blue one — probably glass which is now splintering in an asbestos-like way; straw colored; each 0.007 m. long, pierced longitudinally; one 0.005 + other 0.003 m. in diam.

Photo 29

2 large frag clear blue white glass vessel, probably unguentarium. Q.Cts VII p. 691, # 28. Pit 73, west, found with #26+27.

Base of unguentarium, d., 0.09 m., clear blue-white glass. Q.Cts VII, IV, p. 691, no. 30. Pit 73, west, south side, over fallen roof near wall of tomb. 21-5-41. Photo 40-20.

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

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Recorded (5)

  • Lentoid gem
  • Unguentarium top
  • Bead
  • Unguentarium fragments
  • Unguentarium base

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