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 66 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 66 of 142

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the "Jewish uprising", and the place was dismantled then.

Last Sunday Christo, Michali, and I clambered down the cliffs below the cypriote temple (investigated by O.-R., not Cesnola), and found some rather exciting walls. Just above the final drop of the cliffs into the sea runs a magnificent wall filling in the valleys between the spurs. The best section we saw is clear for fourty or fifty meters and to a height of about ten feet. It has cyclopean pretensions, and I should think it quite early. It is quite thick and built of huge stones partially shaped, and set with smaller ones without mortar or clay. I should not think entirely mad the person who called it

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

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