Ayios Ermoyenis, Objects

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Mi 370 Tomb 1,13 15.37 & 15.35 | silver ring with green "stone" the ring is made of sheet silver, folded into a tube for the band to go round the finger, the outside ends of the tube spreading to form the two sides of a socket for the stone, the inside fold apparently continued as backing for the stone. The two sides of the socket at its ends and alternate adjoining sides (see sketch). the stone is an oval lentoid of sea green glass(?) the silver (apparently now all corrosion) in two pairs of joined frgs. which do not join each other but make up most of the ring, plus a nonjoining frag.( and a couple of bits) from the backing of the stone. W of band ca.0.004, inner diam. of ring ca.0.017, L of stone 0.015, W of stone, 0.011 and T 0.007

Mi 371 Tomb 1,23 15.17 | 6 glass(?) beads a) 4 are of clear but bubbly green glass covered with pearly blue iridescence, and have a distinct lining shell of some yellow substance which tends to stick out at the neds. b) the other two, black and smutty, were thought to be the carbonized remains of wood, but show coppery iridescence and may be of the dark glass paste decorating some of the variegated alabastra (see on Gl 51) diam. ca.0.006. L ca. 0.005

Mi 372 Tomb 1,24 15.18 | 3 glass(?) beads one is green glass like type a of Mi 371, the other two dark like type b of the same. Possibly from same necklace? one dark bead broken diam.ca.0.006 L ca.0.005

Mi 373 Tomb 1,62 15.19 | glass(?) bead long-shaped, smutty dark blue or black with central milky band on which 3 lines of light blue L 0.01 W 0.005

Mi 374 Tomb 1,63 15.20 | glass (?) bead dark (black?) with separate narrow band of white round middle; the bore hole contains a solid movable filling, apparently a piece of silver wire L 0.007 W 0.006

Mi 375 Tomb 1,77 15.32 | piece of stick, carbonized wood? one end of the piece had been cut quite neatly, the other appears to have been mostly broken across PL 0.036 W 0.018 T 0.015