Series·Kourion, Penn Museum expedition
Correspondence, 1933–1985
35 letters · 1933–85
Sites: Kourion, Kourion-Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates
This series holds the correspondence of the University Museum's Kourion expedition from December 1933 to 1985: 35 folders and 2,743 pages, filed by date. The finding aid describes much of it as letters and reports on money, administration and the progress of the excavations, and names as correspondents B. H. Hill, George H. McFadden, J. F. Daniel, Virginia Grace, H. H. F. Jayne, M. A. Godfrey and Froelich Rainey. The years 1934–1936 and 1947 have a folder for each half-year; a single folder covers 1941–1945, and there is one folder of undated letters.
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Some folders are filed by subject: coins (1949–1951), McFadden's death in 1953 (two folders), J. S. Last (1954–1968), the terracotta objects from the Apollo sanctuary (1957), and Last's monograph on the ancient water supply (1974–1975), published as Kourion: The Ancient Water Supply in 1975. According to the finding aid, much of the correspondence of 1953–1955 concerns the settling of McFadden's affairs; G. Roger Edwards went to Cyprus in September 1953 for a year to represent the Museum in that settlement. The later folders run in groups of years to 1985.
Sources
- Penn Museum Archives. Kourion, Cyprus Expedition records, PU-Mu 1050. Finding aid by K. T. Baxter, L. Rosen and L. Zych, 2014. Philadelphia: Penn Museum Archives. https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records/UPENN_MUSEUM_PU-MU.1050 (accessed 4 November 2026).
- Benson, J. L. 1972. Bamboula at Kourion: The Necropolis and the Finds Excavated by J. F. Daniel (University Museum Monograph, Haney Foundation Series 12). Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, p. ix.
- Costello, B., IV. 2014. Architecture and Material Culture from the Earthquake House at Kourion, Cyprus (BAR International Series 2635). Oxford: Archaeopress, p. 18 n. 131.
Transcribed, page by page
- Box 1, folder 1Correspondence, undated1933–1985 · 10 pages
- Box 1, folder 2December 1933–June 1934December 1933–June 1934 · 117 pages
- Box 1, folder 3July–December 1934July–December 1934 · 142 pages
- Box 1, folder 4January–July 1935January–July 1935 · 125 pages
- Box 1, folder 5July–December 1935July–December 1935 · 72 pages
- Box 1, folder 6January–June 1936January–June 1936 · 85 pages
- Box 1, folder 7July–December 1936July–December 1936 · 41 pages
- Box 1, folder 819371937 · 57 pages
- Box 1, folder 919381938 · 79 pages
- Box 1, folder 1019391939 · 95 pages
- Box 1, folder 1119401940 · 54 pages
- Box 1, folder 121941–19451941–1945 · 40 pages
- Box 1, folder 1319461946 · 142 pages
- Box 1, folder 14January–June 1947January–June 1947 · 73 pages
- Box 1, folder 15July–December 1947July–December 1947 · 97 pages
- Box 1, folder 1619481948 · 107 pages
- Box 2, folder 119491949 · 99 pages
- Box 2, folder 21949–1951: Coins1949–1951 · 20 pages
- Box 2, folder 319501950 · 46 pages
- Box 2, folder 419511951 · 74 pages
- Box 2, folder 51952–April 19531952–April 1953 · 94 pages
- Box 2, folder 61953: McFadden's death (1 of 2)1953 · 128 pages
- Box 2, folder 71953: McFadden's death (2 of 2)1953 · 150 pages
- Box 2, folder 81954–1968: J. S. Last1954–1968 · 33 pages
- Box 2, folder 9January–April 1954January–April 1954 · 143 pages
- Box 2, folder 10May–December 1954May–December 1954 · 165 pages
- Box 2, folder 1119551955 · 33 pages
- Box 2, folder 121956–19571956–1957 · 88 pages
- Box 2, folder 131957: Apollo terracotta objects1957 · 7 pages
- Box 2, folder 141958–19611958–1961 · 30 pages
- Box 2, folder 151972–19771972–1977 · 52 pages
- Box 2, folder 161974–1975: J. S. Last monograph (“The Ancient Water supply…”)1974–1975 · 15 pages
- Box 3, folder 11978–19801978–1980 · 87 pages
- Box 3, folder 21981–19831981–1983 · 87 pages
- Box 3, folder 31984–19851984–1985 · 56 pages
Item: PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 1. "Correspondence, undated". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1933–34. PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 2. "Correspondence, December 1933–June 1934". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1934. PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 3. "Correspondence, July–December 1934". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1935. PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 4. "Correspondence, January–July 1935". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1935. PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 5. "Correspondence, July–December 1935". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1936. PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 6. "Correspondence, January–June 1936". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1936. PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 7. "Correspondence, July–December 1936". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1937. PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 8. "Correspondence, 1937". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1938. PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 9. "Correspondence, 1938". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1939. PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 10. "Correspondence, 1939". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1940. PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 11. "Correspondence, 1940". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1941–45. PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 12. "Correspondence, 1941–1945". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1946. PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 13. "Correspondence, 1946". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1947. PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 14. "Correspondence, January–June 1947". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1947. PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 15. "Correspondence, July–December 1947". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1948. PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 16. "Correspondence, 1948". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1949. PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 1. "Correspondence, 1949". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1949–51. PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 2. "Correspondence, 1949–1951: Coins". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1950. PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 3. "Correspondence, 1950". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1951. PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 4. "Correspondence, 1951". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1952–53. PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 5. "Correspondence, 1952–April 1953". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1953. PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 6. "Correspondence, 1953: McFadden's death (1 of 2)". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1953. PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 7. "Correspondence, 1953: McFadden's death (2 of 2)". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1954–68. PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 8. "Correspondence, 1954–1968: J. S. Last". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1954. PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 9. "Correspondence, January–April 1954". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1954. PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 10. "Correspondence, May–December 1954". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1955. PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 11. "Correspondence, 1955". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1956–57. PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 12. "Correspondence, 1956–1957". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1957. PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 13. "Correspondence, 1957: Apollo terracotta objects". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1958–61. PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 14. "Correspondence, 1958–1961". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1972–77. PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 15. "Correspondence, 1972–1977". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1974–75. PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 16. "Correspondence, 1974–1975: J. S. Last monograph (“The Ancient Water supply…”)". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1978–80. PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 1. "Correspondence, 1978–1980". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1981–83. PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 2. "Correspondence, 1981–1983". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1984–85. PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 3. "Correspondence, 1984–1985". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized.
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