1946

Mr. Daniel tells me that he will probably not want all of the material coming from our share of the Geometric tombs. We both agree, however, that what we do not want for the Museum can easily be bartered for what the Museum may want from surpluses in other Museums. When I say barter, I am reminded of the time I brought [handwritten: Mrs.] Dohan some years ago, an inscribed piece of a large common storage jar from our site of the Sanctuary of Apollo. This piece happened to belong to an incomplete storage jar in the Metropolitan Museum, one found on the same site by Cesnola some sixty years ago. Miss Richter immediately laid claim to it. Mrs. Dohan, however, was a tough customer and refused to give it up until Miss Richter promised to send her some one to clean antiquities for her in the University Museum for one month free of charge.

Mr. Daniel's only reservation in respect to the proposed neolithic "dig" is that Mr. Dikaios' work be screened and subjected to appropriate supervision. As we are on very friendly terms with the Director of Antiquities at Cyprus, there should be no trouble about this. If we wanted to dig another site ourselves, we should have to bring some one over from this country and return him to the States again after the dig. His services would cost us, probably, all told, not less than Four thousand Dollars. Neither the Youngs nor I can afford the time to direct another excavation as we are busy getting our own material ready for publication. Mr. Dikaios services will not cost us anything and he will probaly supply much material from the [handwritten: Antiquities] Department for the "dig". As the Cyprus Museum will be doing the mending and cleaning, our expenses will be reduced to a bare