Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 5·1952–April 1953

1952–April 1953

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

Scan 13 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 5 (1952–April 1953), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 5, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 13 of 94

PRINTS FOR CYPRIOTE EXHIBIT - 1953 KOURION (I think all these negatives are good as photographs and could be made 11x14)

47979City site & sea, donkeys
48037City site from plain
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48072Newly found inscription
47994Excavator recording
47999Draftsman making plan
47989Workmen at breakfast
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47997Walls of a building on the ground, fallen in earthquake
47958Walls replaced in original position
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48059 )Whichever seems more photogenic. Excavation of tombs
OR
48061 )
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47981Mosaic floors
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48050Workroom scene
47964Photograph of objects
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48033Bronze lamp
48058Bronze satyr
48055Terracotta figurines
48051 )
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48052 )Female head, stone
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Local color:
47984Street scene, Episkopi
47967Road scene, donkey loaded with hay
48069 )Olive tree, boy pulling out thorn from knee
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48070 )

BAMBOULA (Best negs. I can find of this site giving sequence; but not very good, better 8x10?)

'39-33Tomb
218Houses
'39-170A house
'39-216Stone lined well

LAPITHOS (Very small negs., the' good; probably 8x10)

L 219General view of cemetery
433Excavator making plans
411Tomb entrance
412Tomb chamber from door
330General view of interior of tomb
418-236 views giving panorama of tomb contents (If it is possible to make these up into one consecutive panorama, good; if not perhaps we can cut up the individual prints and piece them together.

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

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