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 34 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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… is not careful (his special weakness is breaking bronzes), so that it may be lost.

We found almost nothing of the skeleton, but we have most of the skull, and a beautifully preserved jaw, with almost all the teeth intact. There are no cavities and no wisdom teeth, which, combined with the small size of what bones we did find, lead me to believe that it was the tomb of someone in the teens. I am keeping the jaw and cranium.

Somewhat west of the mosaic (ca. 50 meters) Michali discovered that a large block (1.50 x 75 x 40) on which you reposed one day(!) is a fas- -cieing block with a semicircular coffer of 0.80 long and 0.40 deep, containing a large cockle-shell design, of good workmanship, and pretty well preserved.

Along the city side of mosaic hill facing

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

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