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 130 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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… contributory to the ackachi, which flows past our site, is a spring which flows plentifully, even in october. The government wanted to pipe it to Episkopi, but the villagers were unwilling to pay £100. In all events the spring is there, flanked by ancient improvements.

There was a prehistoric settlement here. We found some Cypro-Mycenaean and Middle bronze age sherds here, and the hill opposite is lined with graves of the same periods. The villagers have dug two, but no archaeologist has ever heard of the place before. I have a handsome collection of sherds to substantiate my views.

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

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