Letter from Plenderleith to Schaeffer on corrections to the technical report on the bull bowlHarold James Plenderleith

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… of Museum Objects called "Conservation" of which I am the Hon. Treasurer. The article would be published in about a year's time.

With best wishes,

Yours sincerely,

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Handwritten: Bell's photographic prints d.o./c enclosed

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First footnote. Line 2, to the word "miallo" "Copper, silver and sulphur are essential constituents of ores, the presence of sulphur is not revealed by the spectrographic analysis."

Second footnote, line 6, to "green incrustation referred to above" "This explanation is probably not enough to account for the heavy green incrustation but the photographs taken during excavation do not show any copper in contact with the ong."

I am also enclosing the outline of a theory I have concerning the state of the ship which is, of course, too speculative for the paper but which, if you have no objection, I propose developing into a technical account for the new publication of the International Institute for the Conservation

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