Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 2·December 1933–June 1934

December 1933–June 1934

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 96 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 2 (December 1933–June 1934), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 2, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 96 of 117

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… shall be kept at the Museum or at such other place or places as the Curator of the Museum may deem expedient. 11. If in the course of the excavations the Applicant discovers any immovable antiquities, such immovable antiquities shall not be removed by the Applicant from the soil or from the place in which they are discovered, unless he shall have previously obtained a special licence in writing from the Governor of Cyprus under the hand of the Colonial Secretary. 12. After the conclusion of the excavations, a share, to be fixed by the Museum Committee with the approval of the Governor of Cyprus, of any movable antiquities discovered shall be given to the Applicant. 13. If in the course of the excavations the Applicant discovers any articles, objects or things, which are not antiquities, such articles, objects and things shall be handed over by the Applicant to the Curator of the Museum against a receipt in writing under the hand of the Curator of the Museum. All such articles, objects and things as aforesaid shall be kept at the Museum or at such other place or places as the Curator of the Museum may deem expedient, and shall belong to the Government of Cyprus. 14. The right of publication of the scientific results of the excavations is reserved to the Applicant, but the Applicant shall publish such results in a full and scientific manner within two years from the date of the completion of the excavations or within such further period as the Governor of Cyprus may allow. The Governor of Cyprus may always, if he thinks it right, publish all facts of general and non-scientific interest concerning the excavations. The Governor of Cyprus is the sole Judge of the nature of the communications which he thinks right to … continues

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