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211 Jesse Hall, Columbia, Mo.
Feb. 28, 1954Dear Roger: I think I'm about ready to give a considered answer to the several points brought up in your letter, which I've been working over this week-end. First is that I have no drawings of tombs. I very carefully left behind everything to do with the tombs. In fact I have no drawings other than those which Christofis made especially for me and of these a set of sun prints has been left behind. I have both the originals and sun prints of these, but nothing else. By general plan I imagine you refer to the one I had made and just labelled Kourion-Bamboula and on which I put the most important trenches. I did not put on this map the details of Trenches 11, 17 and 18, but these are found in so far as I was able to reconstruct them from little sketches on the map of Area B. If you feel they ought to go on the general map as well, that can be done; I felt it was enough to have them on the larger area map. As for areas to be retained, certainly A and E are the most important and should be fenced off, as you say. The Well too must be protected. I should like to see Area D kept open and fenced in, but both Area C and Tr. 15 might as well be fenced in when Benson is finished; they are of stratigraphic interest only with no architecture worth mentioning. Your suggestion to Benson about having a rough draft ready by late summer is good and I'll keep in mind a conference with him at Kourion if possible. Let me know what his plans are and when he will be ready for such a conference and I'll try to make plans accordingly. If he is coming home, that will be the determining date. Nothing has been done here yet about my successor, but perhaps the matter will come up for discussion soon.
The matter of the digger I had in mind has got into a confused state. I thought I had described my interest some time ago, but if not its not in a Neolithic dig at Kouphovouno, but rather in the Early Bronze settlement which I believe I have discovered at Episkopi. The settlement is in the field immediately to the south of the enclosure wall of the cemetery just south of the main road as it comes west from the bridge. That would make it just about south of the Bamboula. The field runs up to the slight ledge above the river, where it drops off. When it was ploughed with a deep plough for the first time in 1951 all kinds of domestic pottery, pivot stones, mill stones, etc. were brought up and its seems quite sure that there is a good EB settlement here, such a thing as has nowhere been dug in Cyprus thus far and I feel it would be a very worthwhile thing to dig and not very difficult. Actually, if I can scrape up some money, I'd like to put in a couple of test trenches during next year when I hope to spend about a month in Cyprus and if the site proves as worthwhile as I suspect I'd try to get more money for a larger dig. If you could mention this to Peter and see what the technicalities are, I'd try to arrange for sponsorship. I imagine U. of Missouri would be very happy to sponsor if I got the money and it didn't cost them anything. What I would have in mind is to make the trial dig, then if it looked good to come back for a half-year and do a bigger one a little later. I'm now thinking of April, 1955 as the month I might spend in Cyprus and could make the trial dig then
Our plans have just received a tremendous boost in that Gladys has been awarded the Founders Fellowship of the AAUW, their largest award, $3500. So now we're solvent even if we don't get a Fulbright and plans can go ahead on a surer basis. The award is not to be made public for a few weeks yet, so don't spread it around too much. I have my doubts about a Fulbright, but still am hoping.
Almost forgot - on receipt of your letter I made a check of my Bamboula photos to see what I had on the tombs. For the 1937-38 series, Bam.1-309, all tomb photos have been taken out of my set and you probably have them at Episkopi. For the Bam.'39 series, I have the following numbers which are photos of tombs: 102,152,159-162, 177-8,180-2,186-7,189-90,192,197,218,228-234,239-245,252-258,263, 289. There are no tomb photos in the Bam.'48 series. The '39 ones
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