Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 9·1938

1938

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

Scan 70 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 9 (1938), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 9, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 70 of 79

Nov 16, 1938

Printed: MISSION DE RAS SHAMRA

Dear Mr. Daniel,

I have no copy here of my last letter to you and do not remember what I said about the cylinder seal. I am afraid I had not made me very clear. In any case I consider the Enkomi seal published in Syria, en hype as of more syrian origin.

As to the port Mycenaean tombs found by me at Enkomi, I dated them between the limits of the XIIIth - Xth cent. In any case they are later as the tombs of the XIIIth the best as I said, the "reminiscences" of certain Mycenaean objects show that the date could not be very much later

[printed: Adresse permanente : Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (S.-&-O.), France. Adresse pendant les fouilles : Camp de Minet-el-Beida par Lattaquié (Syrie).] … continues

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

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