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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 66 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 66 of 179

P 1655

1:7

Unguentarium, bulbous shape

local clay with traces of buff

slip.

flat base with lathe marks;

flaring lip;

broken; mended; incomplete.

H., 0.169

Y.G. 31.29

Photograph

NOTE: similar bulbous unguentaria dated by Swedes to transitional period between Roman and Hellenistic. See S.C.E. Amathus Tomb 21. 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

St. Hermogenes 11 June, 1941 Tomb 8, No. 135 on strat. 2 McF. p. 889

local 1.40

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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