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 62 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 62 of 125

-4- at the end of the rope as to funds, what with the mosquito brigade, and the added expense of Antoni (who really is excellent) and the substitute. I gave Christo a pound, and spent 8 shillings on a coin, so my own reserve, on which you were counting, is down. The coin is a gold hemistater of Kition, apparently of King Pumiathon and the issue of 322 B.C. I was unable to learn just where it was found, but it is from the Kourion region — Feb. 22 I have been having the usual fasaries these last days. I had the nerve to report to the local police that a tomb was plundered in Kaloriziki, and was answered by having my excavation knife confiscated and my name written in the police books for a misdemeanor — that of having the knife without a permit. Hassan Effendi's men dug the tomb, and the stathmarhis knows it.

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

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