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 9 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 9 of 22

T 2037	Nude female figurine
fine, soft grayish-bwn	red-brown clay	Incomplete assembled from 9 fragments; from same work shop	as T 2035-36. Clay like 2035-36	Not mended as no fragments join.	Remains of white all-over slip	as on T 2035-36 with red paint	on some fragments. Similar vent	holes in shoulder as in T 2035.	Most fragments affected by fire	many traces of which noticeable	in stratum;
Fragemnts	(1) Torso; part from breasts	down missing; once covered with white paint of	slip with some traces of red paint; vent holes	behind on shoulders, myrtle leaf shaped instead	of being rectangular as on T 2035; what appears
^{vent holes} = slit over shoulder blades as tips for insertion of wing-	white slip enamel-like, Band of dark red paint on right shoulder.	Front + back section is curved. Walls thick.

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

Objects named on this pageProbably Ayios Ermoyenis (St Hermogenes)

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Recorded

T 2037Nude female figurine

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