Letters from Schaeffer to Dikaios on the credits allocated by the CNRSClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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… of the reproductions published in my first report on Enkomi in Missions in Cyprus, p.67 - 93.

15th of June 1945.

If these proposals would be convenient to you, I would be glad to be given permission to start research as from the first of september of this year or later in the autumn.

Yours sincerely

C.F.A.Schaeffer,M.A. D.Litt.h.c.Oxford Director of the Ras Shamra Expedition Curator of the Musée des Antiquités Nationales Fellow of St.John's College,Oxford

Printed: NATIONAL MUSEUMS / MUSEUM OF NATIONAL ANTIQUITIES, faded, mirrored

Printed: CHATEAU DE ST-GERMAIN-EN-LAYE (S.-et-O.) / TEL: REGIONAL 22, faded

The Director of Antiquities Nicosia, Cyprus

Dear Director,

Faded typed text, largely illegible

[handwritten: sent with letter of 23/11 / letter / value (RL)] [red pencil]

Letter to Dik.

My dear friend, Without return of the gerefjiers sarm, [illegible] under word would be, because, it was written by [illegible] is solely occupied with business [illegible] which I found so comfortable that they refused to accept [illegible] of the others [illegible] in [illegible]. I am charged [illegible] the letter of [illegible] support, I am charged to re-level the ground of the N. of R.S. over the three chants of the N. to R.S. (indicated the agitation in Egypt has been held), at Enkomi and on the Sq. Ak. rising into earth-under-earth. I would be happy to be able to undertake the prime sounding at [illegible] and earnestly hope that you will adhere to the concession of later excavations. M. Schaeffer would accompany me and you could what what [illegible] we would be happy to see you again there, and I pray you again gerefjier sarm in this Cyprus which has so [illegible]. I lived with your acquaintances at Nicosia, [illegible] the Ruins of the N. of R.S. and corrida at de [illegible] [illegible].