Letter from Schaeffer to Dikaios on publication of the results of the mission conducted jointly with the Cypriot governmentClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

Stamp: COPY

January 1964

Dear Mr Dikaios,

I send you all my best wishes for you and your family for the year that has begun. You may have heard that during our campaign last October at Enkomi, we found in a hiding place of a immediately post-Mycenaean sanctuary the bronze statue, 35 cm high, of a god helmeted and armed, who was placed on an ingot of the Cypriot type in the shape of an animal hide. I asked the present Director of Antiquities of Cyprus, Mr Karageorghis, to send you a photograph of the statue during treatment for your personal information.

The conditions of burial and stratigraphy being similar to those of the horned god found by you about 75 metres from there during the excavations of the 'Joint Expedition' in 1949, I think, at present, that the two hiding places and two statues are contemporary or nearly so. May I consider your paper in Archäologischer Anzeiger 1962 p. 18 et suiv., on the bronze statue, as the expression of your definitive opinion on the date of the statue from the Temple area, to be cited as such?

I am preparing the publication of volume II of Enkomi-Alasia, in which the discovery of the god with the ingot and other finds will be presented. I am again hindered by the fact that your publication of the 'temple' and 'North town' areas', where so many comparative materials for our own discoveries were found, has not yet appeared. I hope that we may look forward soon to the completion of your manuscript. With a view to the publication of your work, I take the liberty of sending you a copy of paragraphs 8 and 9 of the Charter of the 'Joint Expedition' relating to publications, and to send me a copy of your manuscript as soon as it is completed. Please accept, dear Mr Dikaios, with the remembrances of my wife and my respectful regards to Mrs Dikaios, the expression of my distinguished sentiments and best wishes.