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 9 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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… pot (with three handles) with stereotyped floral designs in the shoulder panels. It is a very good piece. One of his skeletons (he has two) is holding a most unusual rod-shaped pot in her hand. I don't know what it is yet, but aside from its intrinsic interest it is nice having it clasped in a hand which is in place.

Both tombs contain bronze fibulae, and Simeon's has a good bronze ring. Simeon's tomb contains a vast amount of pottery: it is already 3 deep, and we have neither floor nor skeleton. It is consistently early submycenaean.

We removed the pottery from Tomb 19 (the one with the stones in the dromos). The large pot is half full of bones, apparently burnt, which I have yet to investigate, and another was full of cups stacked one within the other.

I completed the plans of Romeo and Juliet, and

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

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