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Athens (inhabited place)

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Letter from James Stewart in Athens re Christmas dinner at the BSA and Dr Berta Segel's theories on a gold cup recently acquired by the Benaki Museum, 1935-12-25

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/2/1/24/8
Scope and Contents Addressed 'Athens', dated 25 December 1935. They have arrived at Athens from Cyprus via Rhodes. Stewart does not warm to Athens nor finds the British School (BSA) to offer congenial company. He continues his discussion of Cypriot Neolithic wares and his conviction that those thus identified by Dikaios are actually Chalcolithic. At the BSA Christmas dinner he met Dr Berta Segal, working on jewellery at the Benaki Museum, who showed him a gold cup found on Euboea which had been bought by A....
Dates: 1935-12-25