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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 9 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 9 of 22

Earth removed along the top line shows it distinct and the object having a noticeable curve (up at the broad end, as it lay in the tomb.) Earth removed from the "split" place has wood remain in it but no shape emerges. The broad end finishes in a sort of nail head .026 up and down, .021 thick; the wood comes down below the iron. The object seems too distinct in some of its outlines to be simply a coffin nail with some of the wood adhering. Possibly a toy?

General dimensions, see drawing. T of wood along distinct upper line ca 0.010 .10? St Hermogenes 1940 Tr.43, Tomb 1, #78 at -6.554 VG pp.27,46,52,54

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

  • Possibly a toy? (coffin nail with wood adhering?)

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