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 21 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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… belong together. He expects that the button will have some carved decoration on it, but we have not yet removed it to see.

Tomb 21, the little one at the south end of the field, of which we expected nothing, turned out pretty well. It seems to have been a child's grave (the skeleton is mostly gone, so that it is hard to be sure), and contains a fair amount of miniature pottery. In it we found a good deal of bronze jewelry: several complete fibulae, 3 rings, and 3 ear-rings ((drawing)). There is also a necklace, comprising a bell-shaped bead with geometrical carving, and four or five smaller coloured stone beads.

Tomb 24 has given us two layers, and we expect one or two more. Aside from a good skeleton and its under- and over-lapping of other tombs, there is nothing of particular interest. The pottery is very usual late geometric and archaic.

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

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