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 21 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 21 of 22

Fragment of blue glass bead cut in facets (max. diam., 0.008m.) Fragment of amber bead which is like it belongs to (does not join) Fragment of Gl 174.

Three compressed spherical gray clay "beads", one, with copious white slip, not entirely perforated. Berries for crown? Found with gold leaves - and some scraps of bronze - in strained earth from pit 19, in Tomb, 17-5-1940. See Q.M. 9 II, p. 216, # 30. ✓"Similar" bead", d.=0.006 m., not completely perforated. Not listed in notebook, evidently. Envelope: "22. 6. 40. Gold leaf from Pit 19, Tomb 2, near floor, exact position uncertain; + 1 bead". ✓ scraps of eggshell found in sieve from Tomb 5. 4 ivory revetments, also from sieve from Tomb 5. Turned ornament; sliced in half. Bead + reel (alternating 1 bead + 2 reels). a) 0.029 m. long. 5 beads. Corroded. Metal stains. 12 reels b) 0.02 m. 3 beads. Somewhat eaten around edges. 6 reels c) 0.015 m. 3 beadson bevelled on bevelled. 4 reels. d) 0.02 m. 3 beads, 8 reels; one over need broken.

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

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Recorded (6)

  • Bead fragment
  • Bead fragment
  • Beads
  • Bead
  • Eggshell scraps
  • Revetments

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