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Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 13·1946

1946

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

Scan 81 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 13 (1946), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 13, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 81 of 142

"There was to be a trial dig of about a week's duration... and if the results looked promising enough to justify the expenses of a single season's dig, we should go ahead, & otherwise not."

"It is estimated that a trial dig.... would cost £50, ... Megaw estimates that the entire dig including trials would not exceed £500, exclusive ... of publication expenses."

"I wouldn't mind putting up the £50.... for the trial dig if I thought the Museum might be persuaded to undertake a proper dig......"

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

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