| Department |
Archive |
| Collection |
John Pendlebury Family Papers |
| Reference No. |
PEN 1/3/1/5/23 |
| Level |
Item |
| Dates |
[c. 9-14 Mar 1928] |
| Donor/Creator |
Pendlebury, Dr John Devitt Stringfellow
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| Scope and Content |
Written from Salonika [Thessaloníki] where they were getting excavation supplies, describing the excavation that John was working on (around 1.5 miles from an American excavation at Olynathos at a place called Meciberna/Molyvopyrgos) and Salonika [Thessaloníki]. John also mentions that he had been feeling unwell because the weather was so hot; he had decided not to publish his catalogue of Egyptian finds in Greece [‘Aegyptiaca’] that year because there were more currently unpublished items which he could include; that he had managed to get a copy of ‘Tanagra Figures’ by Wilfrane Hubbard in Athens; and that their diggers [for the excavation at Meciberna/Molyvopyrgos] were likely to talk in a dialect that John didn’t know because they were refugees. Additionally asks Herbert if he had received enlargements of his best photos [of objects for ‘Aegyptiaca’] and mentions that it had been too snowy to visit the Dictaean cave (near Psychro [Psychron]) in Crete. |
| Notes |
See PEN 2/2/1/252-255 for photographs of Thessaloníki. |
| Related records |
[PEN 2/2/1], Volume, “Greece 1927-28, Vol. I”, Oct 1927 – Apr 1928
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