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 39 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 39 of 142

July 21/34-9-

both in stone and in terracotta, like the Aghia Irini ones— mostly life-size or more.

It is an unrecorded site, and should prove to be a very fine one indeed. Maybe this is the temple of Apollo: it answers the ancient descriptions better than Cesnola's place. There should not be so very much work connected with clearing it. One person could handle it with ease in one season.

I am delighted. It is the sort of truly Cypriote thing for which I had hoped, and begun to despair of finding. I do hope that we can at least send a trench through it before we retire. For its own sake we will certainly never regret it— and it may be an important point in our topographical … continues

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

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