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 123 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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to have its interesting spots. We seem to have traces of three temples now, and the traditional "Apollo" region is certainly worth looking into, whatever it may be. It has some fine masonry, and is almost untouched. A sizeable wall runs from it straight to the sea, and along the cliffs to our site, almost without a break. Some parts of it are rather fine. The sherds would indicate that it runs pretty early. Christo has found Middle Bronze age and Neolithic sherds at the head of our valley.

There are also what Christo identifies as Mycenaean mill-stones scattered about Palaiokastro hill: not one, but many.

I have been working on the fill in trenches

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

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