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 20 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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… four above. We are at work on tomb no. 20. one or maybe two more burials remain in 24, and 25 is still dragging on, thanks largely to Simeon. His refusal to start that tomb from the back has made a great deal of extra work for everyone concerned. It is knee-high with pottery, and has to be done bit by bit. We have not yet found the skeleton, but pieces of bone scattered here and there lead me to think that it is not intact. We will get 120 or 130 pots from it, including one small black pot in the shape of a wash-tub. There is some stone implement visible in the lower regions, which I rather expect to prove of interest. The best individual find there so far is an ivory rod about 25 centimeters long, and an ivory button. Simeon says similar pieces have been found in Mycenaean tombs at Enkomi, and that they … continues

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

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