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

1948

·

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

Scan 37 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 37 of 107

DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES, CYPRUS.

Certificate of Antiquity.

I hereby certify that the consignment of 16 cases shipped on the "Alma Victory" by the Curium Excavations to the Pennsylvania University Museum, Philadelphia, under bill of Lading No. 1, dated Larnaca 16th December, 1947, were examined by an officer of this Department and found to contain antiquities of the twelfth to eighth centuries B.C. discovered during the excavations of the Pennsylvania University Museum Expedition to Curium as set out hereunder. The cases were at the same time closed and sealed with the seal of the Director of Antiquities, affixed hereon.

Case 156vases, 3 packets potsherds, tombs 22,29.
Case 212vases, fragments from vase, tomb 18.
Case 329vases, tombs 24,24a,24b.
Case 440vases, potsherds, tombs 23,24.
Case 513vases, tombs 18,24.
Case 658vases, tombs 23,29.
Case 720vases, bones, tomb 19.
Case 832vases, tombs 19,25.
Case 980vases, tomb 25.
Case 1013vases, tomb 27.
Case 1116vases, neck of vase, tomb 27.
Case 1225vases, tombs 27,33.
Case 1374vases, tomb 33.
Case 1433vases, tomb 33.
Case 1551vases, tombs 36,39.
Case 163vases, tombs 24,39.
Small case24ornaments & tools, bronze fragments, tombs 25,39,18 a-b,33.

Stamp: seal of the Director of Antiquities

Handwritten: signature

Director of Antiquities.

19th January, 1948

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

Spotted a wrong reading? Write to us or use alexis@ancientcyprus.com