Catalogue·PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 13·1939–1948

Ayios Ermoyenis, Objects

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

Scan 12 of catalogue PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 13 (Ayios Ermoyenis, Objects), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 13, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 12 of 69

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P 1600 40.34

Drawing: jug profile; labels: [illegible, ~4 words

pointed jug, ribbed ware, graffito thickened rim, slightly incurving mouth; handle hollow on top; ring foot with deep cup-like hollw; the horizontal ribbing is lacking just above and on most of the interior save the neck where it is deeper on the inside than out; graffito, * xxx oxox fine micaceous reddish brown clay, blackened on most of the exterior and part of the interior surface mended from many pieces; many still missing from the body H 0.475 diam.0.18 Trench 44, assembled (by mender) from sherds of depth 3.30, S extension

P 1601 39.3 stemless unguentarium resting surface shows spiral from wheel clay, with bits, mottled red and yellowish top gone, rest intact RH 0.055 diam.0.037 trench 43/75 on ground level(?)S of Wall C

P 1602 Sherd Lot 2, S cut 39.24 flat-bottomed saucer bottom left rough; simple rim, flat top sloping down outward buff clay with fine dark sandy bits and a few white ones mended from six pieces, greater part of rim missing H 0.032 diam.ca.0.11

P 1603 Sherd Lot 2, S cut 39.26 & 39.25 flat bottomed saucer, fragmentary bottom left rough; rim with flat top with slight slope down outward clay as in P 1602 mended from 3 pieces; less than half preserved H 0.024 diam.ca.0.12

P 1604 Sherd Lot 2, S cut 39.27 & 39.28 saucer with sunk center, ring foot: fragmentary rim of lekane type: flat top, with overhang at the outer edge rather fine clay with white bits, buff and grey, possibly burned; remains of black wash which dripped down outside 4 joining frags., 2 non-joining; about a quarter preserved, including complete profile H 0.046 diam.ca.0.17

P 1605 Sherd Lot 5 or 7 (Tr. 43/75, 2nd or 3rd stratum) 39.14 & 39.15 fragment of saucer, glass dripping out-turned rim, slightly concave on top; drip of glass inside and out buff and reddish clay with white and dark bits no part of base preserved gtest dimension 0.0535 diam.ca.0.12.

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 (6)

  • P 1600pointed jug
  • P 1601stemless unguentarium
  • P 1602flat-bottomed saucer
  • P 1603flat bottomed saucer, fragmentary
  • P 1604saucer with sunk center, ring foot
  • P 1605fragment of saucer, glass dripping

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