Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 11·1955

1955

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

Scan 28 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 11 (1955), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 11, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 28 of 33

4000/2191 3/35/5 DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES, Nicosia.

The Director The Curium Expedition, Episkopi.

Sir,

In exercise of the powers vested in me by Section 16(1) (c) of the Antiquities Law (Cap.43), I have selected for the Cyprus Museum, subject to paragraphs 3 & 4 below, the following items found in the excavations of the Curium Expedition of the Pennsylvania University Museum:

A. All contents of the Sceptre Tomb excavated in the Kaloriziki Cemetery.

B. The following items as detailed in the Expedition's main Inventory:

(1) Pottery (P) - all items. (2) Architectural members (A) - all items. (3) Bone & Ivory (B) - all items. (4) Terracottas (F) - all items. (5) Inscribed pottery (G) - all items. (6) Glass (Gl.) - all items. (7) Inscriptions (I) - all items. (8) Lamps (L) - all [handwritten: lamps] lamps found except those listed in para.2A(1) below. (9) Metal (M) - M.82 statuette of satyr M.882 " " deer M.70 leg of cauldron with lion's head M.51 bronze situla, inscribed M.116 inscribed ring M.139 inscribed pitcher and all other metal objects found except those listed in para.2A(2) below. (10) Miscellaneous (M): Mi 511 faience head aryballos Mi 512 " hedgehog Mi 536 " aryballos Mi 515 " " Mi 538 " " Mi 518 " Mi 522 " Mi 510 " Mi 526 " Mi 513 " Mi 529 " Mi 532 " and all other miscellaneous items except those listed in para.2A(3) below. (11) ... ... (S) - all items. (12) Stamped handles (SH) - all items. (13) Stone (St) - St 831 grazing deer (Faience) and all other items of the Stone Inventory, except those listed in para 2A(4).

C. All items in the separate inventory of terracottas from the Apollo Sanctuary prepared by J & S Young, except those listed in para. 2B.

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