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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 9 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 9 of 122

Bronze disease setting in, July 1953.

St Hermogenes 1940 Tr.43, Tomb 1, #19 at -6.494 (top surface) VG pp. 6, 7, 10, 11, 25, 189

Outer diam. 0.162 W of edge 0.011 W across bow of handle ca. 0.038

The object has not been cleaned except that the dirt not immediately about the handle has been removed. Considerable corrosion, which has destroyed part of the left side of the handle, which was undercut in cleaning; note that the right side of the handle is in position as found.

[photograph]Film vg 14.14 | 14.14 | 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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