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Handwritten: Jan 1950
7 February 1950
Mr P. Dikaios.
Dear friend,
Among your objects found not far from the glen of Enkomi-Alasia, there is one of those steatite seals typical of the beginning of the Iron Age. 12th-11th c.. I add here a sketch which will remind you of the piece. It depicts a warrior with a cross, segnoté behind his shield. I hope you will reproduce this piece in your report, if possible with a bonddessin and an enlarged photograph of its impression. I am writing a general article on these seals and would like to be able to refer to your publication.
Have you found other pieces of the same type and the same period in your excavations at Enkomi, or does your museum possess any whose provenance is known? In that case, please be so kind as to have impressions and a photograph made of them, if possible immediately. If you wish, Mme Forrer could take on the drawing of your piece(s) from Enkomi, and also of the best of those that may be in the museum.
Have you found in your excavations at Enkomi, and at what level, cylinders of the linear type comparable to that published by me in Missions en Chypre, p. 106, fig.44, and also by Daniela in his report on Curium, AJA 1938, p.268, fig. 10b?
I am pleased with the fine contribution you have promised us for Enkomi I. I would like to send the volume to press as soon as possible and ask you to send me your manuscript as soon as it is finished.
Please give Mrs Dikaios the best regards of Mrs Schaeffer and my daughter, as well as mine, and believe, dear friend,
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