July–December 1947

Continued from scan 2

… more than a little pleased with the results.

I now note that you feel I should dig further in the hope of finding some evidence to show how the seating-section was reached. I agree that without this information it would be difficult to make a restoration. Whether we could find a long enough stretch of the euthynteria course in situ and whether that course, which is all we can hope for, would carry any indication of the steps I don't know, but I shall be glad to have a try at it next Fall if funds are available. It will mean moving a lot of earth.

I have considered at some length your question as to whether I would be ready to dig further in the Palace next Fall. The result of this meditation is that I am opposed to the idea for several reasons, although I shall naturally do whatever you say. George told me just before he left that Pete had written that he fully intended to come back and finish the Palace himself - in fact that he was "itching" to do so. A second is that unwillingness. That is one reason, and a strong one, for my there is to be more digging. This is not[handwritten: x] as I had thought when you were enough on our hands. I think we have between the terracottas and the Stadium (if I had not then foreseen more stadium digging, the packing here, but I had not then foresee more stadium digging, finally, I job (infra), or as ambitious a project as the Palace. Finally, I think people's have taken over several of these projects of completing other with the unfinished business since I have been here and although, a really small exception of the terracottas, they have been on a really small scale compared with the Palace, I still find that they are apt to be extraordinarily difficult. In any case I will appreciate your comments.

I did not know until the day before George left that we were to pack all the Kaloriziki tomb groups this summer working on this ever since as well as to catalogue Tomb 38 as you had told us. We have been working on this ever since and I can already see that it is going to be a long and difficult job. We started by going through the tombs in George's departure, and found that they were very considerably mixed up on the shelves. We have tried to bring them together again, but lots of pieces are still missing. George's apotheke and found that they were very considerably mixed with no great success so far (i.e. which I understood were his and Pete's Kaloriziki books, but they turned out to be Apollo III and IV. We do not see how we can catalogue Tomb 38 without them, nor, in fact, have ransacked the house but of Pete and George about this, for I trace. I have written to both there is no have ransacked the house but of Pete and George about this, for I trace. I have written to both there and in fact, do I think we can do the packing job successfully, since there are several large uncatalogued and undivided tombs (e.g. Tombs 36 and 37) to complicate matters.

One unexpected result of this search was that several pots from the tombs which were stored in the other apotheke and which we had previously, temporarily packed were found scattered among the unpacked viously, temporarily packed in such a mess, for which tombs. The packed tombs in any case were in such a mess, that we got them out again, we felt more than a little responsible, corrected duplicate numbers checked them off with the catalogue, corrected duplicate numbers