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… and Your wise piety shall be praised by every mouth. O, truth-bearing and riddle-loving one, show Your own wisdom to mankind and help us in what we desire, and — τέλος πάντων — upon Your altar there shall shine yet another fair icon glorifying the purity of Your soul and praising the goodness of Your heart! Amen.
After this heartfelt prayer, the trench is extended in the previously mentioned direction with square M northeast of A, and it slopes toward R. The earth is a dull Fokas grey without change from the surface down to the rock. The sherds are for the most part Roman. Here and there some statue fragment like the preceding ones is found. Thus at an unknown depth, probably however near the surface, in O, is found
| Roman stone head l. 10 cm | 30 |
Likewise, somewhat further on in the trench in square
| P, Stonehead l. 9 cm | 31 |
at a depth of c 1 m. — In square T, is found lying directly on the bottom rock
| Male stone head l. 42 | 32 |
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain