Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 13·1957

1957: Apollo terracotta objects

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

Scan 5 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 13 (1957: Apollo terracotta objects), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 13, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 5 of 7

DESCRIPTION (cont.) -cised on top of head, long straight incised lines behind, all thickly massed; long hair cut in curve on nape below ears. Gazes straight ahead, the entire head almost caricature of a Semitic type. Body: trunk very broad and flat, but somewhat modelled. Wears longsleeved high-necked shirt and trousers extending to just below knees; upon these are indicated by a series of roughly parallel grooves two "sashes", the one begins at the lap, extends across chest over his l. shoulder, across back and over outside of r. thigh; the other, narrower than the first begins on his r. shoulder, crosses body below the first and spreads to cover outside of l. thigh. The r. hand, on which all fingers are shown, is clenched [handwritten: B. Very long flying tail roughly incised with criss-cross lines with pin.]

Photograph

Handwritten: X,25

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

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