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Related to completing the manuscript ② I am seeking approval from you to add Dimitrios Michaelides as the second author of the monograph. I'm sure you recall the extensive correspondance the three of us had concerning his interest in publishing the mosaics. He is now the director of the Paphos Archaeological Museum for the Department of Antiquities. In that capacity I have worked with him for the past two years on material relating to my survey project in the Paphos District. In conversations with him this summer concerning Roman/Byzantine Cyprus and the mosaics that have been discovered at Nea Paphos I realized what a knowledgeable individual he was and how much work that he had put into his M.A. thesis for the University of London on the Kourion mosaics, especially in terms of their stylistic analysis and parallels to other mosaics in Cyprus. I wrote to him this fall to see if he was still interested in collaborating on the publication. In other words, to combine the work and resources of both individuals to produce a superior volume. He has just written back that he would very much like to do this despite his overworked schedule (i.e. constant salvage excavations around Kato Paphos). I think this collaboration would indeed be beneficial to the planned monograph and would ensure that it is completed by the end of
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