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 117 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 117 of 142

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museum. It costs him about 5 shillings to get it, what with registering and a trip to Limassol with a witness. He also says that Mr. Dikaios is terribly temperamental about money, and is as likely as not not to send it, and to get furious if anyone mentions the matter to him.

Christo is just back from Kourion, and says that some of the trenches look pretty wilted, but that the walls are alright.

There is another temple, with Roman sculpture, in a pocket east of At Meidan. Christo has been investigating the cistern (below the mosaic) where the figurines were, and says that it seems to be filled solid, and that it is an ancient fill. He hypothesises another temple in that region. They are

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

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