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 32 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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this week. Christos started opening the tomb under the skeleton to day, and Simeon started the bottom (3d) layer of tomb 24. Both are very early geometric, and both look good. We cleared the dromos of 27 (Christo's tomb), and of course found the chamber of another tomb cut through its fr end. But we are leaving it, for if we open it we will certainly find another, and so on ad. inf. There was a vast amount of pottery in the dromos, giving us ten or more packages, and it is good, so I am very glad that we cleared it. The tomb appears to contain a great deal of pottery: in all events we have found a number of pots very high just inside the door.

Had we discovered before you left that tombs 24 (lowest layer) and 25 (the sub-mycenean

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

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