Letter from Schaeffer to Megaw on objects to be returned to Cyprus, with a list of the crates and their contentsClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

Handwritten date stamp at top right: 19.5.52

Green ink mark at top right: 19.5.52

19 mai 1952.

Dear Mr.Megaw,

I hope you got my letters dated april 29th and mai 10 th with various items and also a parcel printed air matter, with the rest of the sheets of Enkomi-Alasia I.

To day I have packed for return to Nicosia with Pironin the stratified sherds the study of which is finished and published in the volume now in your hands. They are 14 boxes (shoebox size) filling one leather suite case and containing: sherds point top. 91: 59 boxes : : : 106:22 boxes : : : 63:34 boxes, 2 paqets and 2 single sherds : : : 110: 11 boxes and single sherds : : : 123: 4 boxes : : : 126: 1 boxe : : : 125: single sherds : : : 94: 13 boxes

In all 144 small boxes and one boxe single sherds. The single sherds are those which the photographer when he had finished the photograph not returned in one of the boxes by fear to mingle them up. They can of course all been identified with the help of the published photographs. Also if a mistake may have occured when returning the sherds into the boxes, they can be repared by comparisons with the photographs. All photographs have been made in my presence and there are no confusion possible. But when repacking there may have occurred a mistake. But it is not very probable. I only had no time now to verify the whole material before returning.

With the sherds is returned the small terra cotta ball Enk.1950 Nr.5523, which had been forgotten lastyear being left with M.Masson who studied these balls.

There are about as many sherds left here. They are not yet publisheda and concern sections which have to be completed or fit to other sections which have to be drawn by Forrer this season. Your permit dated october 14th 1950 for 3 years will expire before I shall have time to finish them. And so I am asking already now for permission to keep them until the next volume (vol.III of the comb.expedition) will be ready.

Pironin and a new assistant of mine M.Courtois will arrive at Limassol sept.11. on SS Corinthia. They will carry with them the leat hercase with the sherds. Please inform the customs accordingly.

Please give my kind regards to Mrs Megaw

Yours sincerely

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