Letter·34 CDF art. 168-3·19 May 1952

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

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Typed in English and French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 4 of letter 34 CDF art. 168-3 (Letter from Schaeffer to Megaw on objects to be returned to Cyprus, with a list of the crates and their contents), typed in English and French. The transcription and translation follow.

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

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… one might conclude that on special occasions the

provincial god of a Hittite king was invoked

in a town to be affixed there to a

document at Ugarit. But the reference is vague,

and [handwritten: Do you know] know any parallels

modern of a [handwritten: such] seal for travel; of

seal of a new one which on the regard

could you support? to correct the

explanation proposed for the seal of Ugarit?

Please accept, dear Dr, the expression of my

distinguished and devoted sentiments.

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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