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Notebook·34 CDF art. 138-6·1967

19th season of excavations at Enkomi, notebook of Schaeffer and LagarceJacques Lagarce

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

Scan 389 of notebook 34 CDF art. 138-6 (19th season of excavations at Enkomi, notebook of Schaeffer and Lagarce), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 138-6, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 389 of 402

Stamp: 39

JP. Nicolardot | Enkomi, 11 October 67 POB 8 Famagusta Cyprus

Professor Cl. Schaeffer Member of the Institut École Française d'Athènes.

Dear Master and friend,

I kindly ask you to find enclosed a set of documents concerning the bronzes from well 212 excavated by Jacques Lagarce: 1) Inventory of the objects deposited at Nicosia 2) Drawings of a large number of these objects. 3) Letter from Jean-Claude Schaeffer recounting the transfer of these bronzes to Nicosia following your telegram addressed to Mr Karageorghis. 4) Three photographs of the swords = one general view and two detail views of the hilts. 5) Excavation notes by Jacques Lagarce accompanied by a letter.

I think you have received our letters in particular those of Jacques Lagarce which gave you details of this discovery. In my letter of 2 October I alluded to this find, leaving it to Jacques Lagarce to give you the privilege of informing you of it

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

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