Letter·34 CDF art. 168-3·12 December 1950

Three letters from Schaeffer to Megaw about the excavations at EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 1 of letter 34 CDF art. 168-3 (Three letters from Schaeffer to Megaw about the excavations at Enkomi), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

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

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Escale d'Alexandrie 12 . XII . 50.

Dear Megaw, We are homebound after a succesful season at Ras Shamra and glad to return to our library . Before leaving I went with Forrer through the work he has to finish before leaving Beyrouth ( Institut Fr. d'Archeologie) beginning of april. I saw that there is no time left for him to return to Nicosia for drawing the potery of last season and some of the finds of 1949. For the latter I can at present postpone the drawings having excellent photos to publish . But what concerns the few more or less complete vases found in stratigraphical layers this season ( I think they are not more than 5), I am rather embarrassed . The vases wher handed over to Dikaios in white boxes with the request to grant them a priority in mending in order that I can include them in the

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