Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 3·July–December 1934

July–December 1934

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

Scan 116 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 3 (July–December 1934), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 3, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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… almost finished. It has been most surprising, with 14 hand made black pieces of my new class, and many new colour combinations, such as vermillion paint on yellow clay, and black, maroon, and vermillion all on the same pot. We have a lot of new material. But a great many pots are minus a piece or two, or more, whether it was Simeon's falt fault, or from earlier causes, I don't know. The tomb was, of course, disturbed in geometric days, by 24.

Savas is working on sherds. He is a little slow to learn, so I hope to keep him off of the tombs.

Christo wonders if his pay can be handled through me rather than the

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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