Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 6·Undated

Ayios Ermoyenis, Miscellaneous (Mi)

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

Scan 12 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 6 (Ayios Ermoyenis, Miscellaneous (Mi)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 6, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 12 of 22

Mi 379

Shell, sea

Published AJA 1946

Photograph

1:8 V.G. 19.13m

White on inside and out; exterior surface has an iridescen cense like that on thin blown glass bottles found in early Roman burials. Two rows of punched punched holes round edge of curved sides of shell to hold something that has disintêgrated. Probaly a toilet article Broken in two pieces; mended.

Gtet. D., 0.167 St. Hermogenes, Tomb 8, No. 92 in strat. 4 at Level 1.55 McF. p. 848

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

  • Mi 379Toilet article · Tomb 8

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