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 4 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.

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Nicosia, 23 November 1944.

Dear friend,

I have replied to your official letter and thank you again for the arrangement made by your department.

I think with great pleasure of the past week with you and in this pleasant and cordial atmosphere. I have not yet received [illegible] from your side. Everything was secured by the Germans [illegible] in [illegible] Ankara ... [illegible] the [illegible] of the library was burnt in the [illegible] or of the [illegible] ... [illegible] Who was [illegible] ... [illegible] ... [illegible] Cyprus [illegible] ... [illegible] everything has gone.

Please accept, dear friend, the expression of my sentiments [illegible].

Handwritten: signature

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