Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 8·Undated

Ayios Ermoyenis, Pottery (P1610–P2854)

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

Scan 57 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 8 (Ayios Ermoyenis, Pottery (P1610–P2854)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 8, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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This type of unguentarium was found in the Necropolis of Hadra at Alexandria, probably correctly dated, to the middle of the Third Century B.C. See Annuaire du Musée Gréco Romain (1935-39) p. 93, Tomb 8, R.d.f. 1257 found in loculus of chamber O with lamp R.d.f. 1255 which appears to be Broneer's Type VII. Compare with Homer Thompson A Group lamp from the Agora at Athens. See in the Annuair Plate XLIX, 5. See also p. 94, R.d.f. 1232 with similar lamps in loculus of Tomb 10 R.d.f. 1229 & 1234, Plate XLIX, 4. he above were found in the Ezbet el Makhouf tombs at Hadra. See also Tomb 15 from the Rue d'Abouk: Hadra. See also p. 74, & Plate XXIX, 15 tombs at Hadra, p. 74, & Plate XXIX, 15 found in sity in a loculus with two similar lamps. See also our L368 found on floor of Tomb 10 of St. Hermogenes, and also belonging to Broneer type VII. [handwritten: my knowledge ho such]

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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Also mentionedL368

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