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 27 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 27 of 69

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SH 61 pers. 55.27 St Hermogenes 5/vi/41 Trench 43 extension over Dromos of oblique stomion, whitish fill leading to Dromos, with fusiform ung. frgs. and Pergamene (?); VG p.158

VG Cy 300stamped amphora handle: Rhodian
right handle, angular; dim letters

SH 62 Pers. 55.25 St Hermogenes 7/vi/41 Trench 43 extension over Dromos of oblique stomion, picked from scarp of loose stony fill of sample over E side of transverse drom. VG p.164 VG Cy 301 | stamped amphora handle: Rhodian angles fragment on which is preserved a small part of a circular stamp:

rose (framed)

For proposed restoration, cf Nilsson, Timbres Amphoriques de Lindos, No. 141, 16.

SH 63 pers. 55.22, 23 St Hermogenes 23/v/41 Tomb 8, # 3 GMcF VG Cy 302 | stamped amphora : Rhodian rather mushroom rim; red stain below it on one side mended from many pieces, bit missing H 0.865 diam. 0.33 height of handles 0.258 and 0.267 two circular stamps, one rose (retr.) the other rose (retr.)

SH 64 30.17 pers. 55.20, 21 St Hermogenes 1941 Tr. 43, Tomb 9, # 13 VG pp. 148, 167-8, 175, 177 VG Cy 303 | Rhodian stamped amphora rim of moderate projection and inward slope; red stains below it especially on handle; no graffitti, dipinti, or secondary stamps two rectangular stamps: left

right mended from many pieces, bits missing H 0.80 diam 0.349 H of handles 0.273 and 0.28 Capacity 26 1/2 liters (barley)

SH 65 St Hermogenes 1941 Sherd Lot 8 (martyra beside Trench 43/75, Stratum 3) VG p. 127 | stamped double handle micaceous red clay with white and other bits, micaceous cream slip left handle stamped, with lunate sigmas and cursive omega club

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)

By the field number written in the record. A number links to the object’s page where we have one, and to the Penn Museum’s record where the museum has it online.

Recorded (5)

  • SH 61stamped amphora handle
  • SH 62stamped amphora handle
  • SH 63stamped amphora · Tomb 8
  • SH 64Rhodian stamped amphora · Tomb 9
  • SH 65stamped double handle

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