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Letter·34 CDF art. 168-3·1944

Correspondence with Dikaios on the exclusive right to excavate at Enkomi for Schaeffer's missionPorphyrios Dikaios and Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

Scan 2 of letter 34 CDF art. 168-3 (Correspondence with Dikaios on the exclusive right to excavate at Enkomi for Schaeffer's mission), typed in English and French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 168-3, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 2 of 8

Nicosia, 31st August, 1944.

My dear friend,

I thank you warmly for your letter of 15 June 1944, Algiers. I wrote to you official report regarding your request to reserve for the Fos Shamra Mission the site of Enkomi, and I hope that my letter has reached you.

We were very happy to have had you with us during your short stay in Cyprus. That was a very pleasant surprise.

I cannot think that you [illegible] [illegible] these that [illegible] you [illegible] the [illegible] [illegible] your [illegible] the [illegible] your [illegible] [illegible]

I think that [illegible] you [illegible] in Paris and that your [illegible] [illegible] your letter will be [illegible] your chancellery [illegible] St Germain

Please be so good as to [illegible] me in good remembrance to Madame Schaeffer and your [illegible] the expression of my sentiments [illegible]

Handwritten: signature

Handwritten: signature

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

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