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Enkomi, 10 October 1966
Dear Maître,
After completing the study trip in the Aegean Sea and on the coast of Asia Minor, from 25 September to 5 October, I therefore had the luck and happy surprise of meeting again in the hall of the Athens airport Mr and Mme Forrer coming from Paris. We made thus together the journey from Greece to Nicosia, where we arrived on Thursday evening 6. The next morning, we paid a visit as planned to Mr Karageorghis at the Museum and to Mr Lapierre at the Embassy (where we also greeted, by chance, Mr the Ambassador, who came into Mr Lapierre's office - or rather the garage which serves him as an office during the renovation works of the chancellery.
Arriving at Enkomi, we had the pleasure of seeing the very interesting finds of pottery made in the pits and the wells by J. Lagarce, for three weeks. This represents a group of vessels of the Close Style period and the very beginning of the Iron Age, of domestic use (when they come from wells), as a general rule of types different from the grave goods. There is a remarkable kalathos, with fish and birds painted under the rim on the inside, which reminds me much of examples seen at Rhodes in 1962 and at Cos … continues
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