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 22 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.

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Gl 58 S cut dep.8(?) 39.10 neck of blown glass flask. the rim has considerable spread, and a plain edge without the turn-in characteristic of the flasks of tombs 5,8,10; one broken edge shows the start of xx a dip which may have been a spout or just and imperfection thin transperent greenish glass with many bubbles, partly covered with a coating of metallic luster not quite half rim preserved and only part of one side of neck; no join with Gl 57 and seems to make too long a neck when added to that PH 0.048 diam. of rim ca.0.036 diam. of neck 0.0.54 0.015+

Gl 59 S cut 39.12 neck of glass flask (blown glass) neck constricted at base; body spread abru ptly from there transparent, faintly greenish; not bubbly but streaky, little remains of iridescent coating none of rim preserved and only small bit below neck PH 0.052

Gl 60 Tr.43/75, top of Stratum 3 39.13 rim fragments of glass plates 2 fragments with closely similar but not identical profile: the rim .012 wide, consists of a plain x edge which swells abruptly to a tubular thickening (more or less circular in section and pierced); the rest of the plate, preserved part only .001 thick, starts on the upper side of the swelling transparent greenish glass L of fragment a 0.037 of frg. b 0.033

Gl 61 Tr.43/75,top of Str. 3, just under stony stroma (2) at NE end of trench piece of glass slag porous dark bluish grey substances with tiny silvery reflecting bubbles or facets on surface, and at one end a bit of clear glass encrusted gtest diemnsion 0.0295 T 0.01

Gl 62 Martyra between Tr. 43/75 & 43,near top of Stratum 3 39.13 rim fragments of glass plates 2 fragments of closely similar but not identical profile, like that of Gl 60 transparent greenish glass L of frg. a 0.019, of b 0.011

Gl 63 Tr.43 extension 40.16 fragments of blown glass vessel most of the bottom and a few body fragments of a flask or small bowl; the body frgs. very thin-walled (less tha 0.0005) the base thickened to nearly 0.002; the base rises in the center transparent greenish glass with bubbles; distinctx coat of iridescence which flakes off readily all in one gtest dimension of base fragment( nearly whole width of base) 0.08

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

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Recorded (6)

  • Gl 58 (number uncertain)neck of blown glass flask · Tomb 8, Ayios Ermoyenis (St Hermogenes)number uncertain
  • Gl 59neck of glass flask · Tomb 8, Ayios Ermoyenis (St Hermogenes)
  • Gl 60rim fragments of glass plates · Tomb 8, Ayios Ermoyenis (St Hermogenes)
  • Gl 61piece of glass slag · Tomb 8, Ayios Ermoyenis (St Hermogenes)
  • Gl 62rim fragments of glass plates · Tomb 8, Ayios Ermoyenis (St Hermogenes)
  • Gl 63fragments of blown glass vessel · Tomb 8, Ayios Ermoyenis (St Hermogenes)

Also mentionedGl 57

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