1948

Printed: ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA

Printed: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY

Printed: OFFICE OF THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF / UNIVERSITY MUSEUM / UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA / PHILADELPHIA 4, PA.

Stamp: ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA 1906 FOUNDED 1879 INCORPORATED

a policy of this sort. Somebody at the museum could probably draw up a brief protocol on the basis of the points I have suggested but in a rather more pleasant form than my memoranda usually take. (I don't know why I always sound so savage in such matters; I try not to but it doesn't do any good!) I should expect Mr. Hill to approve of it in principle. He rather dislikes things that are put down in black and white, but I have seen enough to be convinced that it is necessary in this case.

Incidentally, in case it was not made clear above, I think that once a section of the expedition is definitely finished, and it is improbable that any more work will be done on it on the site, then the pertinent records should all be sent to the museum. For example, my present sojourn definitely finishes Bamboula; I plan to have all plans, my notebooks, and my sherd lists sent to Philadelphia when I leave. The same should apply to the Stadium.

I have had an excellent example of the danger of not keeping such a record of original documents. Seventeen years ago we excavated at Lapithos in Cyprus under Mr. Hill. The expedition was closed years ago and the finds were divided. I have been trying for a long time to have all the records sent to Philadelphia because, as you know, I am trying to get someone to publish this material. I heard this spring that there were some more records in Cyprus, and by writing to Mr. Hill and telling him what they were, he arranged for John Young to bring them back to America with him. I was definitely led to believe that these were all the Lapithos records that existed, and I would accordingly have given someone the job of publishing them. Now, however, I find on rummaging around that there are still lots of Lapithos records of their existence or not. I don't know whether Mr. Hill knew of them. These might very easily have gone undetected until long here; wkkk wwks I after publication if I had not run across them. And if a register were kept of all such records and if a copy of the register were in the museum, I think that we are fully justified in insisting on this; I would be in favor of presenting it as a stipulation rather than as a subject for debate.

I am sorry to bother you about all this, but I think that John Young sun-prints instead of the originals he asked for. We are sending the better. done of the stadium, and will send the originals to the museum, leaving one or more sets of sun-prints here for the expedition's file. I am writing to tell him that it is a fixed museum policy not to send originals about when sun-prints will do just as well. I hope this doesn't make me a liar.

Best wishes to everybody,

Handwritten: marginal note, bottom right: Pl. ... Berlin 1949 / 1 ... 'Hanna? ...'