T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 402

To Hogarth Carchemish. May 21. (1911) Thompson feels his dignity as chief too much, & weighs his progress with the harassed fortnight, & something of the sadness of the last shirt & collar is overtaking him, for Gerty has gone back to her tents to sleep. She has been a success; and a brave one. She called him prehistoric! ( apropos of your airing method. as. till she saw their result - an enthusiast, I young think.) Your films came up bravely: they will be of great use: and comfort. I have been photographing this last week - and will more next. Developing too inshedian. The "shiekh carried off his own cousin on his sagglebag from amid the shrieking women at the spring last week. So perish all our enemies! Thompson has a high opinion of him now. A new "tomb". It seems expensive in those things: our third. But no troubles of later peace perfect peace in this dark world ... Your Athens letter is an effort. Thompson is to "judicial upon it". You say a second season unless 1. There is no more palace 2. Or public building 3. Or libu wall on the mound. The "third" is past reading: for, Libu is ousted over as from a pepper pot on all the side of our big "... out: at all levels & at all periods, but nowhere a platform, or a wall more than a few inches high. I will do my best to ensure one of the other conditions being left unfilled, so that there... be another season. At present the second has not turned up to much: in 4 or 5 10ft. s. pits no great finds: a cylinder seal ( worn, not inscrip-...); a couple "..."; a pot or two; and a few well foundations: perhaps in one the last few courses of a wall, to clear). But we have not yet got properly into the W. end of the site, or touched on the main Hittite part, - in my unofficial hope and opinion. (I don't think there is any are official hopes.) On the first condition. The great wall certainly turns at rt. angles (we have found 5 feet of the other side (bend, deleted) already; and in the plain (on a road, or court for carriages: (as arguable from a large egg-shaped block, upturned, which (...) guarded the edge of the corner slabs from chipping): this you see in the photograph.) That great wall is rough, unsquared, inside. So if that was the palace, You will note we find the sculptured slabs - on the wrong side: there may have been other "last; or it a quite earlier building, to which some later "true-blue" has tacked a rear-end of the number of his chariots. Then at the end of the libu we have struck two nice little relief (about 5 ft. high) in basalt, and not quite the style of the -chariots: more the style of the sacred palm relief: good work. (one of them shows that the object on the rump of one of the figures -with palm-frond that, I failed to draw was the beginning of the tail of his bull-legs.): these slabs Thompson proves prophylactic