Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 4·January–July 1935

January–July 1935

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 33 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 4 (January–July 1935), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 4, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 33 of 125

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he dug, and he left it unfinished. Another amateur archaeologist of about the same time, remembered as Castello-pacha, dug another similar tomb there.

We have found, in the region of which I wrote before, near the east entrance to apellona, what looks like a most promising Roman tomb. It is a low tumulus (!) with a collonade and roofing, and is apparently unplundered. There are two (one probably rifled) on a fine hill between the entrance and the upper spring. They are worthy candidates for royal tombs. If they are tombs, and untouched, they should be very rich.

I do like "Apellona", whatever it may be. If we could investigate only one … continues

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

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