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FRENCH ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION Excavations of Enkomi ( island of Cyprus ) St. Germain, 15 November 1946
The Secretary g The Director of the Enkomi Mission
to Mr the Secretary General of the Commission des Fouilles General Directorate of Cultural Relations Paris
Subject: Organization of a / Miss. Arch Franco-Angl. / to activate the expl. / of the bronze city (2nd mill. / B.C.) / of Enkomi / (Island of / Cyprus)a), written sideways: [illegibleIn my report dated Famagusta<s>/ of 30 September last, I informed you of my intention to study with the director of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus a joint excavation project. The reasons motives which [illegible] for dictated my initiative are the following: In the course of the research and of the and of excavation campaign of 1946, I was able to definitively fix and delimit the location of the Bronze Age city of which forms part depended the rich and vast necropolis of Enkomi explored and not yet exhausted since nearly a century of clandestine research and of systematic excavations and not yet exhausted.] Divided into several quarters, this city This city reveals itself to be of considerable importance; its enceinte Cyclopean and most of its buildings are built with care. f built with care . Below Even Judging from our short excavations of 1946, this city and the successive cities seem to have been plundered or … continues
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