Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 3·1950

1950

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

Scan 1 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 3 (1950), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 3, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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Tuesday 17 Jan '50

Dear Professor Young,

After I met you in Cyprus last summer, at the Astoria in Nicosia, I dug for some weeks at KAFIZIN four miles out towards Larnaca. This is the site from which your sherds, AJA xxx, 1926, 249 ff., come from; and I have now 476 more of them on my hands. I shall be back in Cyprus again at the end of May 1950 for my final revision of the material before publication. I wonder if it would be possible to have, not necessarily the complete bowl, but the 28 sherds you have sent out to Cyprus (to Megaw, at the Museum)? They should make a small package, and I shall be happy to defray the cost of postage. This will assemble every inscribed frag. from Kafizin; I am certain that some of yours fit onto the new pieces, but that can be proved only by handling them.

I understand that your connection with Curium … continues

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