Letter·34 CDF art. 168-3·18 March 1947

Letter from Megaw to Schaeffer on land acquisitions at EnkomiArthur Hubert Stanley Megaw

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[printed: DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES, CYPRUS.]

Printed: No......36/47......

Stamp: crest emblem

Nicosia, 18th March, 1947.

Dear Dr. Schaeffer,

Thank you for your letter in which you propose the acquisition this year of part of the site of your Enkomi excavations.

Before opening negotiations with the owners I have obtained from the Survey Department the enclosed plan on which your trenches are accurately marked. This shows that in the tracing I sent you previously the position of the trenches was not shown correctly.

In the light of this I think you may wish to reconsider which plots should be acquired first and I should be grateful if you send me a revised list of the plots for which you wish us to negotiate.

Yours sincerely,

Handwritten: signature

Dr. C. F. A. Schaeffer, M.A., D.Litt. Musée des Antiquités Nationales Château De St. Germain-en-Laye. France.

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