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 97 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.

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… to make to the public. No monopoly can be granted by the Applicant to a non-scientific newspaper or periodical, of the publications concerning the excavations.

15. This Permit is personal to the Applicant and cannot under any circumstances or in any form be transferred or assigned in whole or in part to a third party.

16. This Permit is issued at the sole risk of the Applicant with express and absolute reserve of the rights, if any, of third parties, and without any responsibility on the part of the Governor of Cyprus or the Government of Cyprus or the Museum Committee.

17. In this Permit the expression : (a) "Antiquities" means all works whatsoever defined as antiquities under section 2(4) of the Antiquities Law, 1905. (b) "Immovable antiquities" means antiquities attached to the soil, or only removed with difficulty therefrom, or antiquities which in the opinion and in the absolute discretion of the Governor of Cyprus ought not to be removed from the soil. (c) "Movable antiquities" means antiquities other than immovable antiquities.

Dated the [handwritten: 25th] day of May, 1934.

By His Excellency's Command,

Handwritten: signature

Colonial Secretary.

Stamp: Government seal, faint

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