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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 65 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 65 of 107

Printed: DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES, CYPRUS.

Stamp: coat of arms

No. 466/37 Telephones: DIRECTOR 1000/76; C.C.M. 900/129; OFFICE 900/129

1/7/48Dear George, I am sorry I have not replied to your letter from Kourion earlier. I was out on Tuesday, the day you wrote, and I hope to have seen Christodoulou at Apollo the next day. I have now got your, the letter, and I need to write. I shall look round the basket, the wrapper, and the small in the carriage, the basket of pottery, the and the fibulae are particularly in demand. As regards exchange, the Antiquities Department has virtually been compiled, with a number of ; I shall send a dispatch for the in documents may be sent to Mr. I have sent the money by for 1 for the your

Handwritten: signature: Pitz

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

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