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Sent from the British School at Athens (BSA). About: plans and preparations for archaeological excavations on the sea coast of Chalcidice [Chalkidiki] with [Walter] Heurtley, [Sylvia] Benton and Radford, which they would be travelling to on Thursday; the recent trip to Crete; plans to return to Crete in May to go to Hagia Triada [Agía Triáda] and Phaestos [Faistós], see [Arthur] Evans and see some items in museums; an unsuccessful trip to Eleusis [Elefsína] where John attempted to see Egyptian items but they were in the storehouse of the museum; the vase that [Richard] Dawkins had wanted John to publish from Crete having been broken in an earthquake and muddled with other items; and the fragments of Minyan bowl [which John and Hilda White “picked up” on Aegina] not being suitable for publication. John states that the Minyan bowl from Aegina was not suitable for publication partly because it was found in a “dump of sherds”, where they had probably been discarded by a German archaeological team during their excavations at the temple of Aphrodite [Apollo], so the actually site of discovery was not known. John also mentions that he is taking a course in surveying for the excavations in [Chalkidiki] as [Winifred] Lamb was not able to go; discusses his photographs from Crete (some of which he enclosed – not present); thanks Herbert for “Maurice Hewlett’s despatch”, newspaper cuttings, and ‘Unity of Homer’ by [John Adams] Scott; and says he had heard from [Hans] Frankfort who wanted to meet him about possibly working in Egypt, and there was to be a dig in Knossos the next year but he would rather work in Egypt. Undated, but annotated by [a later hand] as “Sun 4 Mar 1928”. |
