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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 10·Undated

Ayios Ermoyenis, Sherds (Sh)

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

Scan 20 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 10 (Ayios Ermoyenis, Sherds (Sh)), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 10, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 20 of 22

2 sherd fine red-buff clay; black glaze of fair quality, worn, on both faces. Wheel made. One piece preserves part of hole, about 0.02 m. in diam., surrounded by shallow groove; fragment very slightly curved; about 0.004 m. thick. Curvature could have pronounced or severe? piece. Big lamp ? Special vase ?

Drawing: profile and top view of sherd with hole

x = point on underside where wheel. marks seen like at same circumference.

E-H, wells 18-20. P. 1405-4-

small jug (?) frag lower wall + base of alabastron. Greenish buff clay, reddish glaze brown, brown buff clay, reddish glaze mottled mottled brown, red & thick walls. frag lowermost flat_t_ened bottom, solid & thick walls - frag barbotine. Pit 87, 2.60 - 3.75. 17-4-41. Rows of dots. Scoop of thin-walled vessel. Very fine red-buff clay. Matt red glaze ext. + part of int. as lamps dribblings.

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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Recorded (5)

  • Sherd with hole (possible lamp, small vase or jug)
  • Small jug (?)
  • Alabastron fragment (lower wall and base)
  • Base fragment
  • Barbotine sherd (scoop of thin-walled vessel)

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