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Letter·34 CDF art. 168-1·16 July 1951

Letter from Megaw to Schaeffer about a bowl sent by post and the postal receiptArthur Hubert Stanley Megaw

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

Scan 3 of letter 34 CDF art. 168-1 (Letter from Megaw to Schaeffer about a bowl sent by post and the postal receipt), typed in English and French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 168-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 3 of 4

Printed: GOVERNMENT OF CYPRUS

Figure: Government of Cyprus crest, with motto ribbon, centred at the top of the letterhead

Tel. No.:

Our Ref.: 36/36/3

Your Ref.:

Printed: DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES, NICOSIA.

16th July, 1951

Dear Schaeffer,

The news of the bowl which you give in your letter of 9th July is truly astonishing. If this delay could have been foreseen, it would clearly have been better to run the slight risks involved in despatching the bowl by post. I hope its condition has not seriously deteriorated during its long sojourn in the British Embassy.

I wrote to you on 2nd July a letter which by now you will I hope have received.

I am visiting Dikaios again to-morrow. I am told there are interesting things to see at the north wall, and in our other area (adjoining the "temple" on the west) excavation to the lower floors continues without spectacular results.

Yours sincerely,

Handwritten: A.H.S. Megaw

Dr. C.F.A. Schaeffer, M.A., D.Litt., St. Germain-en-Laye, France.

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

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