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Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 10·May–December 1954

May–December 1954

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

Scan 117 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 10 (May–December 1954), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 10, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 117 of 165

Stamp: DUPLICATE

3/35/5.

DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES, CYPRUS.

CERTIFICATE.

It is hereby certified that the 12 cases of antiquities, as per detailed lists attached to the Licence to Export Antiquities, No.2955 of 2nd September 1954, which were shipped from Larnaca on the 6th September, 1954, per S.S. "EXPEDITOR" of the American Export Lines, for Philadelphia, are antiquities within the meaning of the Cyprus Antiquities Law, Cap.43, that is to say they were produced before the year 1700 A.D.

(A.H.S.MEGAW) Director of Antiquities.

Nicosia, 14th September, 1954.

Handwritten: Sept. 14, 1954

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

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