1951

G. H. McFadden.

THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

CURIUM EXCAVATIONS EPISKOPI, LIMASSOL CYPRUS

18th April, 1951Dear Fro:-

Many thanks for yours of the seventh. We are looking forward to seeing Stevens and Block and will give them every cooperation.

Since I last wrote you, Dikaios has completed his excavations at Sotira. He cleared the entire top of the hill, a nice compact area with good depth of soil and well stratified. He cleared down to the first cultural level everywhere and this revealed a group of houses in an exceptionally fine state of preservation. They look as though they had been abandoned yesterday. It would be possible to reconstruct one quite easily, if the idea appeals to you, in the University Museum. The better houses well illustrate how the Cypriot lived about 3500 B.C., the place where he sat and slept, the hearth, the place where he ground his grain, another where he made his tools and yet another where he shaped his combed ware pottery. These several aspects of his activities are illustrated in a single house. It is amazing how much was found undisturbed as he left them. I am enclosing a clipping from the Cyprus Mail which I thought might interest you. We still have funds to continue when Dikaios is again free. He wants to go down to an earlier level which appears also to be fairly intact. He is now acting as Director of Antiquities as Megaw has just left for England and will not be back until June.

I enjoyed your article in the Bulletin and the emphasis on the humanistic side of Archaeology.

Yours as ever,

Handwritten: George

GHMcF/cp

Director, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A.