Letter from Leonard Robert Palmer to Emmett L. Bennett, Jr., August 3, 1962
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1962-08-03
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Palmer, Leonard Robert
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Palmer writes to Bennett, detailing discrepancies he believes he has found in the various records of the excavations at Knossos and which he thinks supports his case for a radical redating of the Palace. He underlines that this information is to be held in the strictest confidence.
Palmer uses a number of abbreviations in this letter. Here is a glossary for the reader's convenience:
NEP = North Entrance Passage, part of the Palace of Minos at Knossos
RSJ = Room of the Stirrup Jars, part of the Palace of Minos
RSG = Room of the Saffron Gatherer, part of the Palace of Minos
AE/NB = Sir Arthur Evans' notebooks from his excavations at the Palace of Knossos
PoM = Palace of Minos, in 5 volumes by Sir Arthur Evans
SJ = Stirrup jar
DM/Pot = Duncan Mackenzie, The Pottery of Knossos (best guess)
DM/DB = Duncan Mackenzie, Day-book of the Excavations at Knossos (published 1923)
BSA = Annual of the British School in Athens
TP = Trial pit (Bennett's own guess as to what this meant)
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Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. Collection, Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. Collection--Correspondence, Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. Collection--Correspondence--Leonard Robert Palmer, Sir Arthur Evans, Duncan Mackenzie, Duncan Mackenzie--Pottery at Knossos, Jacques Raison, Duncan Mackenzie--Day-book of the Excavations at Knossos, John Devitt Stringfellow Pendlebury, Annual of the British School in Athens