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Continued to clear grids 31-32 F-I down to 50 cm, west of dike as yesterday, in hope of finding remainder of banquet frieze plaques.  Continued clearing topsoil down to ca. 15 cm below topsoil surface in grids E-I 33-35.

1.  Pan tile fragment: spiral and 2 sets of sheep tracks.  32 G ca. 15-17 cm down from topsoil surfac.  Broken while lifting.  Max L. ca. 29.6 cm. Max H. ca. 14.5 cm. Drawing . Photograph . 19720055

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Large tile frag with finger print noted and discarded.  Max W. 29 cm.  31 I ca. 20 cm down, removed from edge of trench (northwest border of trench).

2.  Impasto vase frags: I31 ca. 50 cm down from surface of topsoil.  Diam of base 10cm.  Not restorable.  Placed in vase frag box.

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3 casetti of tile frags discarded from E 32-35 topsoil

3.  Pan tile fragment: digamma.  3F ca. 40 cm down in topsoil.  Max H 12 cm.  W 11.5 cm. Drawing . Photograph . 19720056

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4.  Fragment with letter: alpha? or digamma?  32 H-I ca. 35 cm below topsoil.  L. ca. 12 cm.  H. ca. 6 cm. Drawing .

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5.  Fragment of antefix attatchment.  H32 35-45 cm down from topsoil surface in tile fall.  Max W ca. 13 cm.  Joins 72-93, p. 71, no. 10 ABI . Drawing .

6.  Fragment of antefix attatchment.  H32.  35-45 cm down in tile fall.  Max W ca. 5 cm.  Joins 72-89 p. 23, no. 7 ABI .  Drawing makes it look too wide. Drawing .

7.  Fragment of antefix attatchment.  H32.  35-45 cm down from topsoil surface in tile fall. Joins 72-93 p. 71, no. 10 ABI .  Max W 8.5 cm.  ca. 4 cm at thickness. Drawing .

8.  Fragment of antefix attatchment.  G-H32 35-45 cm down from topsoil surface in tile fall.  Max W ca. 7.9 cm. Drawing .

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9.  Gorgon.  31H ca. 30 cm below topsoil surface.  found upright (face up) at same level with find no. 10, p.71 ABI (within 2 cm of same level).  7.37 m from north of north wall; 9 cm apart from no. 10 which was found face down 7 m from north wall.  Part of attatchment preserved at back.  Eye (right) removed with pick axe blow during find. Drawing . Photograph . 19720092

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10.  Gorgon.  31H ca. 30 cm below topsoil surface.  Found face down 9 cm from no. 9, p. 69 ABI and ca. 7 m from the north wall, to north.  Joining frag found ca. 15 cm below.  Max H ca. 16 cm.  W.  ca. 18.5cm.  Two joining broken fragments: p. 67 ABI no. 5 and no. 7. Drawing . Photograph . 19720093

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11.  Frieze fragment from bottom of plaque.  31H ca. 30 cm down.  H 9.3 cm.  W 5 cm.  JOins find no. 18, p. 53 ABI at left edge.  See p. 120 ABI for other joins. Drawing . 19720237

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12.  Frag gorgon hair.  31H ca. 45 cm below topsoil surface.  Joins no. 10 at lower left, which was found 15 cm above.  H 5 cm.  W 4.7 cm. Drawing . 19720093

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13.  Gorgon eye??  G34 ca. 20 cm down from topsoil surface. Drawing .

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15A.  Pan tile frag T19 32H. Photograph . 19720381

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15B.  Frag cover tile.  Surface was foundation of upper building. Photograph . 19720380 .

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14.  Dark red frags of a statue?  Kept for future investigation.  G-H 31-32.  Levels varing from ca. 35-55 cm down from topsoil surface.

15.  Bronze pin (needle) H32 ca. 50 cm down from topsoil surface.  Shaft rounded in cross section and tapers to a point; half of the eye preservd.  Encrusted.  5.4 cm. Drawing . Photograph . 19720043

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Photograph of 19720113.  Joins sherd from T18 G-H 29-30, see ERI p. 247.

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3 wheelbarrows of tile frags from 31-32 G-I discarded from tile fell noted in profile.  4 more tile frags noted with vertical incised lines; two of them join (new break)

16. (a, b)  Two sherds of matte bucchero with stamped decoration noted while sorting pottery frags from grids 30-32 E-G and 30-31 F-I.  cf. same motif (though smaller): R7 71-513, E-F4 A-E, D.  Eva Rystedt notes 2 sherds with similar motif (apparently the same siye) at back of her book from T18 G-H 29_30 (piece of paper clipped to back cover) Probably in box no. 10 of her pot sherds for 1971, see list back of her book. Drawing . Photograph .  16a) 19720113

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Banquet frieze plaque.  Summary for joining fragments:

1. p. 23 , find 8, G 30

2. p. 25 , find 9, G30

3. p. 27 , find 12, I30

4. p. 29 , find 13, G31

5. p. 29 , find 14, I30

6. p. 31 , find 16, H31

7. p. 33 , find 17, G31

8. p. 33 , find 18, H31

9. p. 37 , find 3, H31

10. p. 39 , find 5, G31

11. p. 55 , find 19, G32

12. p. 55 , find 20, G32

N.B. miscellaneous piece found, broken off from find no. 3, p. 37 (no. 9 on this page)

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[ Sketch of profile: 31-31 G, H, I T19]  Topsoil level slopes downward to the north.  Stoney topsoil ca. 25-30 cm w/ tile frags.  Concentrated area of tile fall, dug down to ca. 60 cm below topsoil surface.

NB.  Frags noted with smoother, deeper red surface than others: posssible statue fragments.

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Summary of pottery sherd finds: grids D-I, 30-32.  By far the preponderance of the rsherds brought down from T19, about 5 casette, consist of very coarse and medium coarse impasto ware.  The color an texture of the fired clay varies from red (with coarse white elements intermixed, as in the pithos rim fragments) through greyish-red, grey, light creamy-buff, buccheroid and bucchero.  Only about 1/10 th of the representative sherds consist of finer buccheroid and bucchero.  (For the last see for instance find 72-41, p. 25 ).  Two black banded fragments of Ionic pottery were noted.  One buff fragment (find 72-49, G31, p. 21 ) of Italo-Corinthian ? pottery was found with incised zig-zag vertical lines joining straight horizontal incised lines.  Several recognizable fragments of rims of very large pithoi, base and rim

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fragments of several coarse-ware vessels, three handles from, apparently, low coarse-ware basins were noted.  The smaller of this could have been from a taller, small-necked vessel.  Onequite fine impasto fragment ffrom the topsoil stratum was moulded with a linear vertical pattern extending downward from a horizontal moulded line.

A number of fragments of a red-painted Italo-Corinthian vessel were found ( p. 45 , find no. 12), including pieces of the neck and shoulders in one small area of 31/32 G/H and are in processs of cleaning and possible reconstruction.

Two bucchero fragments with stamped decoration were found while sorting the pottery ( p. 77 , find no. 16).  The stamp compares in type and size to two apparently similar sherds found by Eva Rystedt in T18 G-H 29-30.

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The base and neck of the rim of at least one large pithos, with many other fragments apparently of the smae vessel have been found, paticularly in D-I 30-31.

Many coarse impasto fragments of large vessels have been left up on the site for possible later reconstruction.  It should be noted that the amount of evidence of burning was neglible.

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Digging stopped because of rain June 12th and 13th.