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Written at Molyvopyrgos. About progress on the excavation at Molyvopyrgos [in Chalkidiki], that they had found a new stratum of Early Helladic pottery, the bad weather, and plans to move to Hagios Mamas (about 3 miles away, near Olynthos) the next day. John also describes “the most extraordinary characters”: a landowner called Palamides who was known as “fur neck” because of his coat collars who tried to sell a coin to [Charles] Seltman; “the Comic Bethren” who lived in a house that the excavation used a room of, and spent most of their time in bed; “The Kaiser” who also lived in the house and took his mule, fowls, pig, goat and a couple of oxen for walks; and the old gentleman who had adopted John and now had been named “the Colonel”. Additionally asking Herbert to pay the entrance fee and enter John into [Amateur Athletics Association] high jump competitions in June and July, and thanking him for sending details of [Cambridge University Athletics Club] competitions. John labelled the letter as written on “Monday 26th”, and it is annotated by [a later hand] as March. |
