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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 7 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 7 of 8

COPY

The Office of the DIRECTOR OF ANTIQUITIES, CYPRUS, Nicosia, 18th July, 1944.

Telephones: D/Ants.397 Office 61.

Dear Doctor Schaeffer,

With reference to your letter dated 15th June, 1944, requesting that the site of Engomi may be reserved for the Ras Shamra Mission I have the honour to inform you that your request has been noted and that no licence will be granted in respect of the site in question without prior reference to you.

Yours truly,

(signed ):

Ag. Director of Antiquities.

Dr. C. Schaeffer, St. John's College, Oxford, England.

Handwritten: handwritten date/reference in blue ink, illegible

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

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