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 20 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 20 of 69

XLXX -15-

envelope dated 14/V/40 PH 0.18 diam. 0.048

St 517 Tomb 1, 46 (upper part) plus 72(bottom) 14.23

Pencil: 42.26

soft stone alabastron no lugs; top of rim shows shallow concentric rilling pair of grooves round upper part of body; hole in the bottom ca. 0.008 deep which seems to have been made by poking in a nail(?) and turning it xx round the material is much like that of Mi 301 (Apollo, Altar 2) called by JHY faience, so perhaps it is not stone mended from 4 pieces; nearly half rim missing( looks fresh break); parts of neck and body restored in plaster H 0.233 diam. of rim 0.053, of body, at widest, 0.048

Gl 50 Tomb 1, made up of nos. 10, 10 bis, 10 ter, and frgs. nearby 14.38 variegated glass alabastron relatively distinct neck, at base of which on either side a twist of glass as lug translucent amber with close-set lines of soft blue; remains of white chiefly on the blue lines, which perhaps had originally a milky surface; remains of irdescence on the amber; handles blue mended from many small fragments; part of body xx missing [pencil: now byp frg] H 0.118 diam. 0.036 of rim 0.022

Gl 51 Tomb 1, 11 13.13 variegated glass alabastron horizontal lugs opaque light blue, with alternating white and yellow lines; traces suggestxxx that much if not all of the light blue may have been covered with dark blue(?), a substance which as preserved has spots of copper color; the surface then covered with continuous bands and waves of white-yellow-dark (blue or black?); handle then dark; rim yellow hole 0.007 long in bottom, otherwise intact H 0.077 diam. 0.031. rim diam. 0.024

Gl 52 Tomb 1, made up of Nos. 14, 17, 50 (neck) 64 and frags. 14.37, 13.5 variegated glass alabastron horizontal lugs translucent dark blue with white lines on which traces of color suggesting their original surface was turquoise mended from many fragments, bits of body missing H 0,124 diam. 0.042, rim diam. 0.026

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

Objects named on this pageKourion Complex (city site and Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates)

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Recorded (4)

  • St 517Soft stone alabastron
  • Gl 50Variegated glass alabastron
  • Gl 51Variegated glass alabastron
  • Gl 52Variegated glass alabastron

Also mentionedMi 301

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