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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 75 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 75 of 122

Published AJA 1946

M 332 Bronze strigil,

Wrought in sheet bronze badly attacked by bronze desease; scraper near handle end broken; mended; nearly complete; parts seriously effected by desease covered with wax to preserve bro bronze from further diintegration Sheet bronze folded to make holl low rectangular handle; this seems to have been done by cutting two 1

long strips of sheet bronze, turning down edges of each; and then placing the two together to form the hollow handle; the scraper end was left open to receive the inner end of the scraper which was possibly fixed by weldining to the handle (See M 271).

Photograph

Margin right: W - S glass - h

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

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Recorded

  • M 332Strigil · Tomb 8, Ayios Ermoyenis (St Hermogenes)

Also mentionedM 271

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