Report·PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 10·c. 1950

“The Seals of Curium,” c. 1950

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

Scan 8 of report PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 10 (“The Seals of Curium,” c. 1950), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 10, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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The imprint on the handle of a jar, finally, No. II 12 has the same leaf 7 pattern that is found one several of the metal vases from Mycenae ( Bossert, Ancient Crete p. 80, 182, p. 81, Fig. 153-155. Fig. The tenuous relations here established with objects from Mycenae from the Cyprus sur from Greece, seem to point to an LM I date for the origin of the influences, though these may have taken long in becoming operative on the sherds from Curium. It may also be noted that these relations largely seem to point to mental objects.

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

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