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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 7·Undated

Ayios Ermoyenis, Pottery (P1468–P1609)

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

Scan 72 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 7 (Ayios Ermoyenis, Pottery (P1468–P1609)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 7, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 72 of 150

Published AJA 1946

P 1539

Lagynos

Photograph

415 V.G.33.21

Drawing: +

Very clean and fairly hard b baked clay pinkish buff in color and covered with fine slip of about the same color. The entire surface was covered with red pain paint of which much has flaked off. Paint also on bottom and within mouth. According to Leroux this type developed toward end of 3rd Century B.C. and was still in common use in the middle of the 1st. In his opinion variations in shape are no indicatio of comparative date. See wedge{Homer Thompson} Hesperia

Two wide concentric grooves round root of neck. Very slight indication of grooving on peaked handle. Cup-

(over)

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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