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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 5·Undated

Ayios Ermoyenis, Metal (M)

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

Scan 10 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 5 (Ayios Ermoyenis, Metal (M)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 5, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 10 of 122

M 275 63-1-81

lead pyxis

cylindrical, spreading to a bent-in flat base

bottom broken, partly missing, probably partly owing to attempt to clean out hardened earth inside; dark deposit next bottom inside

diam. at top 0.0515 at bottom 0.0615

H 0.041

[photograph] Film vq 13.29 1:6

See M344 from Tombs (published; illustration upside down).

St Hermogenes 1940 Tr. 43, Tomb 1, # 21 at - 6.484 VG pp. 8, 9, 11, 24, 189 (Evidently right side up in tomb; always referred to as "lead cylinder".)

Margin bottom: drawer

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)

By the field number written in the record. A number links to the object’s page where we have one, and to the Penn Museum’s record where the museum has it online.

Recorded

Also mentionedM344

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