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EXPEDITION KOURION CYPRUS
which may delay packing. Pete's apparent dissatisfaction with the division. He writes that we will probably hear from you "modifying the instructions he gave you with XXX regard to the packing or advising a temporary halt".
If you are writing the Cyprus Museum about the missing objects, it might be well to stress that P 273 and P 274 are so fragmentary as to be worthless (this is stated in Pete's article); that S 32 was disintegrating wide-mouth amphora from Tomb 38 are very late Geometric or early Archaic and could beyond doubt be duplicated times over in the Museum's own collection. (Neither Peter nor we can possibly imagine why Dikaios asked for this bombs-I am inclined to suspect that there is some mistake.) We have been asked for this result of our study of the terra-cottas, since we learned more of value for our hoped for. We are to be pleased with the results of our study of the terra-cottas, 35 Sincerely, [handwritten: signature]
All the staff will join us in sending best regards. We hope to hear from you soon.
I should not like this to end without thanking you for all the trouble you have taken on my behalf. I think it could be published with very little trouble if we could get it all more or less into shape.
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