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far as he can distinguish them at present. I have advised your curator and you to finish first to the rock the excavation of the building (temple ?) where the bronze statue was found before trying to come to chronological and historical conclusions of general importance for the interpretation of the site. When they were written, the work undertaken by your Department was only half done. The stratigraphical analyses had no base, the rock having not yet been reached at the decisive points, nor the relationship between the ashlar building and the underlying levels made clear. So the date proposed by your curator could not been finally established. You have agreed that the report contained contradictions and needed revision. So it was certainly premature to try to outline on this base the general history of the capital site of Cyprus at the end of the II. millenium. Perhaps you can appreciate my feelings that this attempt should have been made in any case first by the inventor and first explorer of the townsite, who invited you to share his work. Your sentence : « Yet it is gratifying when we find that what you then found faulty with is now acceptable », is thus greatly unjust and deeply hurting. Comparison of my conclusions and those of your curator. — I feel, you should have taken the trouble to compare my conclusions with those of your curator before charging me with misuse
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