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 34 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.

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… new area this year, I would certainly speak for it, in preference even to Aghia Anna, which is, after all, just another Cypriote temple. "Apollona" is something quite in a class by its elf, will be of topographical interest, and will be something to show to those who want visible results. It has not been seriously disturbed by our predecessors, though the road-builders did take lots of stone. We should find, in most places, about two meters of earth.

Christo thinks (and I, from what little I know, agree) that Kourion is the best site in Cyprus for geometric things, and that if really fine ("royal") tombs are found here, they will far outshine anything from Lapithos or Amathous. The royal tombs have not been located, and all digging has been centered in

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

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