Notebook·34 CDF art. 136-3·1963

Enkomi 1963 excavation notebookClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 27 of notebook 34 CDF art. 136-3 (Enkomi 1963 excavation notebook), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 136-3, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Parrot Con Curator, Louvre Paris. I am sending you today by airmail the report on discovery discovery important statue in sanct. Iron Age stop please inform the Acad. and press Friday next (except) eleven. Best wishes, Schaeffer

Dear Friend, read I have the pleasure of asking you to bring to the Acad. of the Inscr. at the Session of Friday12 11 Nov concerning the Corresp. the letter enclosed & attached to this friendly message My dear Colleague and Friend , I beg you to inform inform by the Acad. of Inscr. that the excavations of the XVIth Campaign the XVIth Camp. of excav. of the French Arch. Mission of Enk- Ala has of the old capital of the Bronze Age are comm. in the isl. of Cyprus. There is a I thought of informing the Acad. of a fine discovery fortnight. We have just discovered In the central courtyard of a central sanct. of the last period of the city of the Bronze Age and beginning of the Iron Age which … continues

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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