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of the "Corpus" can be sold within ten years. (200 copies of "The Swedish Cyprus Expedition" have been sold in three years, almost exclusively in Europe,) at a price of 40 Swed. Crowns per volume, all the expenses for the printing would thus be paid very soon. The remaining 250 copies would slowly pay the other expenses which will naturally be included e.g. for traveling, photographs, distribution and correspondence, etc.

From a financial point of view the scheme thus presents no insuperable difficulties, especially if some part of the costs could be paid by some funds of foundations in America and Sweden.

The costs would be shared between those institutions which act as editors of the "Corpus". The question as to who would be the authors can be left in abeyance until a general agreement has been reached. It may be advisable, however, with regard to the distribution of the work, that one author is responsible for one group of antiquities, e.g. pottery, sculptures, etc. For practical reasons research work at the American museums -may be done by the American institutions mentioned above as editors, while the European museums and that of Cyprus would chiefly be in the hands of the Swedes. The collaboration, therefore, must be based upon the principle of exchange of any and every kind of material between the authors of both countries.

The advantages of a Corpus of Cypriote antiquities got up along the aforesaid lines, are obvious. The archaeological excavations of recent years have shown that the importance of Cypriote civilization was not confined to its role as intermediator of culture between