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 135 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 135 of 142

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decoration. To my mind some of it is rather beautiful.

I have become very much interested in digging two or three tombs each in two other nekropoleis I have learnt of, not so much for the likelihood of "finds", as for the information I expect them to throw on the problem which so interests me: the relations of geometric and Late Bronze age pottery. One, a little below Kaloriziki, is largely Mycenaean (false-neck jars) with a little geometric — the reversal of the Kaloriziki ratio. The other is nearer to Bamboula, and slightly, but only a little, later than the best Kaloriziki tombs. And there, the town experts claim,

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

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