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DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES NICOSIA.
15th December, 1959Dear Roger,
Thanks for yours of 3rd December, 1959 with the good news of the appearance of Dorothy Cox's account of the Curium coins. We shall look forward to receiving the 2 official copies you have sent.
We have now packed your share of the Ayios Ermoyenis finds, in two cases, ready for despatch with the Sotira finds in due course. Christofis writes that he has incurred expenses in this connection amounting to £5. If you wish us to settle this you will have to replenish your account with us which has a balance of only £0.200 mils at present. Alternatively you may prefer to settle with Christofis direct.
We arranged that the Sotira items should remain here until Porphyrios had seen proofs of the illustrations of these pieces in his report. Can you now estimate when the proofs are likely to be ready?.
As for the basilica I am glad to say that the whole area of the church proper is now cleared as far as the west wall, but the Narthex and the "Bishop's Palace" to the west and the Baptistery identified in 1956 to the north remain as they were. I have done a little judicious restoration, of the apse wall for example, and the one surviving column is to be re-erected next week. Along the East wall runs a street, which rises in two flights of steps to the north, where it may have continued along the front of the "Mint". We have found more of those nice fragments with low relief ornamentation from the marble revetments and, much to our surprise, some fragments of wall mosaics with parts of two little Saint figures, in situ on the wall of a little chapel to the North East.
I think I have now some good material for the article you asked me to write, but I fear I shall not be able to put my mind to any tasks of that kind until after Independence Day. We plan thereafter to spend a few weeks at Episkopi before we leave the Island.
With all good wishes, Yours, Peter.
G.Roger Edwards Esq, Pennsylvania Univ.Museum, 33rd and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia 4.PA.USA.
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