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of all is the humidity, which is almost overpowering, particularly so at night, when even breathing becomes a strain. I find it very difficult to sleep (on the balcony - the rooms are sickeningly hot) and quite out of the question and have absolutely no appetite, or even ability to eat. I really don't like it very much, as I am afraid of getting run down and then catching something.
I should never advise staying here in mid-summer. I personally would far rather be in Greece with nothing to eat than here unable to eat what is so generously provided.
Michali found an interesting fragment of an inscription today, on that slope west of trenches I + III, which he so favors. It is Greek, and the letters look hellenistic to me, though I am no authority. The E sigma
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain