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foundationsfor ultimate publication. In a period of five years, therefore, we should probably not be excavating more than 30 months. It may not prove to be practicable, however, in view of the above, to have all excavations crowded into a three year period. I think it will be necessary to spread the program out a little, although the latter part of the period would be devoted, of course, chiefly to indoor work.
Pete Daniel writes me that you and he were surprised that my budget did not include excavations. ˆhere would appear to have been some misunderstanding about this as it definitely was intended to include excavations but on a limited scale only. In my letter of June 4th to Mrs. Godfrey, I should have gone into more detail perhaps as to just what I believed might be done on a budget of $15,000.00. ˆhis budget was to enable us to continue working toward publication. As you know the John Youngs are here on a joint scholarship and have been working on the great mass of terracotta figurines from the site of the sanctuary of Apollo. Up until the end of the last fiscal year I was working on the finds from the Hellenistic cemetery. A provisional report of our work on this site has just appeared in the AJA and I will send you a copy as soon as the extra ones come. John Young also did some work on the stadium. My budget was to have included some more excavations on the site of that interesting building as well as in and around the debris over the main street, a job which had to be done
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