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Enkomi - Alasia (10e9e campagne) 1954, —
Enkomi - Alasia, Expedition house, 10. oct. 1954. Dear Mr Regan, Here is the usual press communiqué concerning the this years results at Enkomi. As I would like that the French Academy and through it the French press are informed at the same time as the Cyprus Press & the Times or other United Kingdom papers, I would be grateful that if the communiqué would be released here not before Friday 22nd of october. Of course I would be grateful to improve the wording of this com. and to have sent me a copy to my next address: Mission Archéologique de Ras Shamra, à Lattaquié (poste restante), Syria.
" The French Archaeological Expedition to Enkomi - Alasia under Professor C. F. A. Schaeffer of the Collège de France, member of the French Academy, has had another season of excavations during september & october. Prof. & Mrs. Schaeffer and his assistants M W Forrer and J. C. Schaeffer, architecte, have since left the island to Syria to resume excavations at Ras Shamra. The main purpose of the expeditions research at Enkomi, this year, was to trace the western
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