Excavation notebook “Tzermiadha. Objects, Photographs”

Department Archive
Collection John Pendlebury Family Papers
Reference No. PEN 4/1/4
Level Item
Place Tzermiado
Dates 1937-1939
Scope and Content Material relating to excavations near Tzermiado, Lasíthi Plain, Crete, including Karphi. The notebook contains a catalogue [partly in Hilda Pendlebury’s handwriting] detailing objects found at excavations: object numbers, provenance (site and exact location), description of object, small sketches of items, size and photograph number. The object numbers begin “Tz”. The objects catalogued are from Karphi, near Trapeza Cave, Kastellos, Donadhes, Kolonna, Kerasa, Papoura, Sta Mnemata, Karphi, Vitzelovrysis, Mikre Koprana, Astividhero, road from Kolonna to Tzermiado, and Meskine Cave. Also contains (from other end of notebook) a list of [items at excavation house in Tzermiado] and a photographic catalogue detailing photograph number (reference numbers starting “O.”), provenance of items in photograph, description of items, material of object, date of object, and distribution of objects on the photograph.
Notes The photograph numbers in this volume (starting “O.”) refer to negatives in PEN 4/3/6 and the corresponding prints in the photograph album “Excavations in Lasithi” (PEN 4/3/4).
Related records Access restricted [PEN 4/3/4], Volume, “Excavations in Lasithi, Crete, B. S. A.” photograph album, 1937-1939