Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 12·Undated

Ayios Ermoyenis, Terracotta (T)

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

Scan 1 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 12 (Ayios Ermoyenis, Terracotta (T)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 12, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 1 of 22

T 2035

Nude female figurine

soft when handClean brown-buff, hard baked clay slightly micaceous, a rather → grey/ glossy surface which is often caused by the moulds and can be mistaken for a self slip; fired to buff brown; entire surface of body covered with white paint much of which still has a fine gloss, but much of paint has flaked off; the hair, however, is covered with a red oxide paint sli slight traces of which occur on & near the right eye and on the right side of the neck. All but hairworked with stick is mould made; 1 for face; 2 for front torso, 3 for back torso, 4 right arm, 5 left arm, 6 front upper leg (thigh), 7 back upper leg; same moulds used apparantly for both legs, these unlike those for the

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Photograph

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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Recorded

  • T 2035Nude female figurine

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