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I now see that you avoid so far, to do undertake this research by deciding to continue this year on the North wall and to dig west of the mainbuilding in the top levels and its to make sure of their relationships with the mainbuilding, where Bul there is no probleme (they or yet difference of opinion all fl Floors IV-I belong to the Early Iron Age, your Late Cyp. III) my Chypriote Fer I ), as I agreed to your Curator's Dih. report / Whereas The problems & the differences lags in the which to be solved, regard the interpretation of date of the foundation & construction of mainbuilding, that is to say the date of building establishment of of floor V & of the levels below.
In § 3 of the Charter there is you specially reference to the "meticulous excavation of in selected areas down to the rock, your the Department is prepared promised to do and to join would join the French Missions efforts in this effort. to undertake. The selection (it is said there also) of the areas to be excav. by the Departm would rest with the Dir. of the Fr. Exped., but would normally be a matter of co for consultation & mutual agreement. When you wished to choose another area than that I had proposed for your beginnings in 1948, … continues
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