Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 5·July–December 1935

July–December 1935

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

Scan 21 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 5 (July–December 1935), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 5, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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Governor of Cyprus, of any movable antiquities discovered shall be given to the Applicant.

13. If in the course of the excavations the Applicant discovers any articles, objects or things, which are not antiquities, such articles, objects and things shall be handed over by the Applicant to the Curator of the Museum against a receipt in writing under the hand of the Curator of the Museum. All such articles, objects and things, as aforesaid shall be kept at the Museum or at such other place or places as the Curator of the Museum may deem expedient, and shall belong to the Government of Cyprus.

14. The right of publication of the scientific results of the excavation is reserved to the Applicant, but the Applicant shall publish such results in a full and scientific manner within two years from the date of the completion of the excavations or within such further period as the Governor of Cyprus may allow. The Governor of Cyprus may always, if he thinks it right, publish all facts of general and non-scientific interest concerning the excavations. The Governor of Cyprus is the sole judge of the nature of the communications which he thinks right to make to the public. No monopoly can be granted by the Applicant to a non-scientific newspaper or periodical, of the publications concerning the excavations.

15. This permit is personal to the Applicant and cannot under any circumstances or in any form be transferred or assigned in whole or in part to a third party.

16. This Permit is issued at the sole risk of the Applicant with express and absolute reserve of the rights, if any, of third parties, and without any responsibility on the part of the Governor of Cyprus or the Government of Cyprus or the Museum Committee.

17.In this Permit the expression:

(a)"Antiquities" means all works whatsoever defined as antiquities under section 2 (4) of the Antiquities Law, 1905.

(b)"Immovable antiquities" means antiquities attached to the

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