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As usual in Greece, everything is handled very slowly and at the main café. It was there that I had the opportunity to make the acquaintance, especially thanks to Sunday morning, of the main officials, notably the new guard, Takis, of the new Museum of Thera, a new building, of small dimensions, all cluttered with display cases new (made in Belgium) and closed to the public owing to its reorganisation gradual, but very slow.
At the entrance, about ten large vessels or pithoi reconstructed, coming from the French excavations at THERASIA, on the cliff of Kimina to the south of the island (1867-1870) and of those in the ravines of ACROTIRI in the south of the island of THERA-SANTORINI, according to the very words of Mr Takis. Our searches in the inventory books were fruitless: the provenance is not
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain