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Printed: BY AIR MAIL
Printed: AIR LETTER
Printed: IF ANYTHING IS ENCLOSED THIS LETTER WILL BE SENT BY ORDINARY MAIL.
Stamp: GYPRUS 4½ PIASTRES
Dr J. Benson, 405 South 43nd Street, Philadelphia, 4, Penna., U.S.A.
Stamp: LIMASSOL 2·MR 55 9-AM CYPRUS
Printed: CYPRUS
Printed: LIMASSOL
Printed: EPISKOPI
Sender's name and address:- [handwritten: J.S. Last]
Text rotated; body of letter follows on left side of sheet
P.S. It is not possible without considerable excavation to count the number of grooves as the column is sunk in the ground and both ends are badly damaged. I have counted an estimated half circumference and made it 11; Chrysilios's estimated half circel is 12, so the number is 22, 23 or 24 for the whole circle. The tiresome lad then pointed out that there is another half sunk twisted column in thick bush nearby all of the dimensions of which seem to be smaller than that measured. It would cost about £1 to clear sufficiently to get certain (I mean accurate) dimensions, including the number of grooves of both columns (and that is about £1 more than I have at the moment). [handwritten: JSL]
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain