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Episkopi, Limassol, Cyprus.
March 3, 1935Horace F. Jayne Esq. University Museum
Dear Mr. Jayne,
I arrived here about five days ago and am now cataloguing the pottery of the tombs we dug last year. J. Franklin Daniel is here, too, and has been cataloguing his finds of last year. He thinks he has found the early Mycenaean settlement which both Heroditus and Strabo say was the first colony to go to Cyprus from the mainland. Mr. Hill has been delayed by some excavations he is carrying on at Nemea, a place near Corinth. He wants us to start digging ahead of him. We have located the sanctuary of Apollo Hylates where Cesnola says he found the Treasure of Curium. It covers quite an extensive area; apparently Cesnola dug in only a very small part of it. Also, the whole neighbourhood of Curium is very rich in tombs. If we wanted one, I think we might get fairly easily a Neolithic field here. Mr. Hill says that although it is not absolutely necessary it is very advisable for us to have an architect here who can also survey this Spring season. There is no one available now at Athens. Julian Whittlesey, who is now in New York, unfortunately cant come but has recommended someone to Mr. Hill. As I remember Whittlesey wrote you about him. I think we would have to pay him a salary and this together with the passage here and back to America would be quite expensive. From our conversation we had just before I sailed, I understand that as soon as the Museum is able to make the sale which you were anticipating to the Metropolitan, the funds realized on this sale would be available for Curium, and would enable the
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