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 40 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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… study. On the hill above the stadium, and between it and Kourion, is a good late site, apparently a continuation of Kourion. There are two fine big columns (ca. 75 cm. thick), monolithic, of some very black stone, deeply fluted in spirals around the columns. Christo thinks that they are hellenic: they would certainly not be on the mainland. There is another plain grey column, and a number of building blocks, some apparently in place. Two Hassan effendi pits are visible. Sherds are chiefly Hellenistic, running into Roman. In most of the region from the stadium north the soil is very thin, but it is fairly ample at the "Apollonas", and deep at the cypriote temple.

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

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