Letter·34 CDF art. 168-3·30 November 1951

Covering letter from Megaw to Schaeffer with memorandum on the Joint Expedition to EnkomiArthur Hubert Stanley Megaw

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Scan 6 of letter 34 CDF art. 168-3 (Covering letter from Megaw to Schaeffer with memorandum on the Joint Expedition to Enkomi), typed 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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… continue. Thereafter the house, together with any fittings of furniture, the cost of which was shared by the two parties shall be handed to the Department in good condition and become the property of the Cyprus Government exclusively and shall be used for archaeological purposes connected with the site.

7. After the dissolution of the Joint-Expedition a watchman shall be appointed by the Department of Antiquities to guard the site in the intervals between the subsequent excavations of the French Archaeological Mission and half the cost of his wages shall be contributed by the Mission. During the subsequent excavation season of the Mission the whole cost of guarding the site shall be borne by the Mission. On the completion of the Mission's excavations the protection of the site shall become the exclusive responsibility of the Department.

6. Reports of the results of excavations carried out in the duration of the Joint-Expedition shall be published separately by the two parties, but shall be issued in the name of the Joint-Expedition. The two parties shall be responsible financially and scientifically for their respective publications only, but shall exchange proofs and summaries of them for information in advance of publication and each party shall include in its publications such observations on them as the other party desires to contribute.

7. During the preparation of reports on the excavations undertaken by the Department of Antiquities, its officers shall have the right to enter the areas in question after the 31st December, 1952, and to carry out such supplementary studies and investigations as the preparation of these reports may require.

8. Prior to the issue of the Department's final report on the results obtained in the areas it has excavated, no excavations shall be undertaken in those areas by the French- Archaeological Mission.

The text of this Memorandum has been agreed by the undersigned for the purposes of dissolving the French Archaeological Mission and the Cyprus Government Joint-Expedition to Engomi with effect from 31st December, 1952, as aforesaid.

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