His main task was to oversee the allocation of grain rations, but it was, in the words of Christie's biographer, a "glorious attachment", during which Mallowan lived in an Italian villa with a patio overlooking the sea and dined on fresh tunny fish and olives.
A súa tarefa principal era supervisar a asignación de racións de grans, pero foi, en palabras do biógrafo de Christie, un "apego glorioso", durante o cal Mallowan vivía nunha vila italiana cun patio que daba ao mar e ceaba atún fresco con olivas.