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 47 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 47 of 165

Faience

1 hedgehog vase 2 aryballoi 1 janiform aryballos, blue paste

Seals & Scarabs

9 scarabs 9 scarabs 2 seals

Pottery*

2 Early Bronze Age pitchers 1 spouted bowl, Early Bronze 1 large plain bowl, red & black, Early Bronze (especially good)

*see also remarks about sites below

SAI's

None

Sculpture

1 marble draped female head (ILN, p. 590, fig. 15) 1 limestone draped male torso (exhibitable)

Structural terracottas

None

Terracottas

Almost all those on JCS Young's list plus ca. 70 more pieces & heads (for exchange purposes, as you suggested)

The very large horse and rider

Mosaics

Division, if any, pending results of excavations

Plaster

None

Sites

Ayios Hermogenes: material to remain in Cyprus until studied. divisio n to follow Bamboula: numbered sherds to go to Phila. on loan for Benson to study. Possible division later, if we want any Kaloriziki: Scepter tomb allotted to Cyprus. Division of nov. 1948 (to stand)

Minor finds subject to later division. Division of nov. 1948 (to stand) About eight more tomb groups remain for division. If we want more pots for exchange purposes, we can have some of these. Geometric and archaic, but mostly dull. Please advise.

Sotira material: to remain in Cyprus until proof stage of publication. Tentative division before departure or later.

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

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