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 20 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 20 of 22

frag female figure. moulded solid; back rounded + scraped. fine light brown clay with fine buv sharp temper (sand/pap, tufa/tuff?). white sup. Traces of right hand on veil in crook of left elbow + above right hand. Figure preserved from chin to waist, 0.035 m. Draped, frontal, left hand on hip, right forearm raised to hold veil. Chiton. Himation goes over head + over left arm; across body between breasts to right elbow. Object held in left crook of left arm: stalk of wheat? distaff? in front fold of drapery? Pit 82, to 0.60 m.

frag. female figure, moulded solid; back flat + irregular. larger scale than above. red clay, lime temper - porous S. on the local ware. White sup. covered with dirty yellow. Pres. H., 0.06 m. Preserved from groin to ankle. Draped female fig., right leg advanced; chiton showing below himation which falls to mid-shin. Pit 87, 2.60 - 3.75 m. _Unde_script frag. Thin wall of fine buff clay. white slip covered with thick cdon and a dark red circular area. The f ... Pit 86, 60-1.30, 14-4-41, p. 541-2.

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

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Recorded (3)

  • frag female figure
  • frag. female figure
  • Unde_script frag.

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