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 37 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 37 of 69

M 30314.26St Hermogenes 1940Tr.43, Tomb 1, # 74at -6.494 to -6.539(tilted)VG pp. 27, 28, 44, 52bronze mirror pre-cleaning description (dated 15/xi/40): "Has a little rim raised on one side. On this side traces of cloth(?) and in the center a little pierced handle(?) comes away with the dirt and green stuff (seemed not to be in position upright, but on side?)" do not find handle, but only some corroded frags. from surface labeled (in tomb)" stuff adhering to lower level bz mirror, 9/vi/40" as preserved, cleaned, and waxed, disk covered with lumps of corrosion; bit of rim one side broken away and replaced diam. 0.122 5/ii/42 The handle found in a coin envelope with some sherds; see notebook p. 60. Flat piece of bronze ca. .002. thick; near broken-off base, .004 wide, spreading to ca. .006 at the end, which seems to be perforated; L .011; on one side of the circular end an excrescence which may just be corrosion. Seems inadequate for the size of the mirror.

M 30414.15St Hermogenes 1940Tr.43, Tomb 1, # 75at -6.544VG pp. 27, 48, 52iron clamp(?) corrosion makes shape hard to make out but the object seems to have a rather small head at one end, possibly at the other 3 joining pieces, apparently a break at one end total preserved L 0.066

M 30514.18St Hermogenes 1940Tr. 43, Tomb 1., # 76at -5.674 in stonesclosing entranceVG pp. 8, 16, 27, 52iron clamp(?) preserved are 2 frags. which do not join and are perhaps not from the same object; the larger is a strip bent near one end as preserved (breaks at both ends) L as bent 0.072; adhering are traces of wood(?) and large pebbles; the smaller is about square in section the width of the strip of which the other is made, PL 0.049 (breaks both ends), traces of wood adhering

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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