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 4 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 4 of 22

T continued

H., 0.192 assembled from 23 fragments drilled holes on joins of left thigh.

nose Appearance of tragic mask The head is long and narrow, the head is long and aquiline, very thin with sharp outlines; the lips are parted & slightly arched; the contracted eyebrows and eyes sloping down from the nose give an expression of anguish; the hair, painted red, is gathered up over the brow in a low pompadour and hangs in loose wavy curls to the level of the chin in front and the nape of the long thin neck behind; the top is parted in the centre and indicates nicely the shape of the head. He stands with left leg advanced, the right arm on left breast and left arm held out before her. Perhaps she belonged to a group of votive figures. See T 2036

Oblong slot (about 0.01×0.005 m) on each rounded back of junction of arm.

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

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