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 64 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 64 of 179

Pub. AJA 1946 P 1655 + 1.7 TAMAQ es Unguentarium, bulbous shape local clay with traces of buff slip. flat base with lathe marks; flaring lip; Vt 31.79 broken; mended; incomplete. H., 0.169 NOTE: similar bulbous St. Hermogenes unguentaria dated by Swedes 11 June, 1941 to transitional period between Tomb 8, No. 135 Roman and Hellenistic. See on strat. 2 S.C.E. Amathus Tomb 21. MCF. p. 889 Here three occur with a glass bottle of the thin blown transparant fabric which has not appeared in Cyprus to my knowledge before the middle or late 1st Century B.C. We OVER

Level 1.40

65 figures hard to read~~struck~~ 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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Recorded

P 1655Unguentarium, bulbous shape · Tomb 8

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