Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 16·1948

1948

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

Scan 27 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 16 (1948), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 16, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 27 of 107

PRO FORMA INVOICE

Archaeological specimens found in a group of tombs at the Kalorizi Cemetery, Episkopi (Ancient Curium), Cyprus, excavated by the University Museum's expedition in 1934-1935. All date from between 1200 and 800 B. C.

The specimens consist of:

Pottery vessels (bowls, jars, cups, etc.) -- these are at least 95% of the shipment Bronze vessels and a bronze tripod Bronze, stone, and bone pins, knives, and other implements Seals Beads of stone and clay and a very few fragments of gold and bronze jewellery.

Value (based on the cost of excavation; it it impossible to determine a commercial value) . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,000.

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

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