Correspondence between Megaw and Schaeffer on the reading of Enkomi IArthur Hubert Stanley Megaw and Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

Stamp: 23 VI 52

Printed: GOVERNMENT OF CYPRUS

Printed: DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES, CYPRUS.

Printed: Our Ref.: 36/1613 (handwritten? no—printed label "Our Ref.:" with typed value "36/1613"

Nicosia, 23rd June, 1952.

Dear Dr. Schaeffer,

We have now received the unbound sheets of Enkomi-Alasia I. I will get them bound with blank pages for the coloured illustrations as you suggest and will register this as one of the two copies to be furnished under the terms of your licence.

I have not had time to do much more than skim through it. I have read and appreciate the acknowledgements so far as they concern us. I welcome the references to our participation and the delicacy with which the termination is recorded. What I have not found is any reference to the receipt by you of Dikaios' report on our 1948 and 1949 campaigns. Had this been printed in your volume as was the original intention, the question would not have arisen; but as it was not, it ranks as a colleague's unpublished work, access to which it is customary to acknowledge.

In your letter of 30th July 1951 you wrote:

"If after reading my volume, you really feel that I did not do justice to your Curator's and your Department's contribution, you have an occasion to say it in volume II of the combined expedition. But I am confident that this will not be necessary".

I must confess that the full extent of our contribution at Enkomi, as I see it, does not emerge from a reading of your "Introduction", owing to the omission of any reference to the existence of Dikaios' unpublished report. After all, this was the first detailed analysis of a major building supported by ample stratified material and comprehensive period plans to be produced in the course of our joint enterprise. In your first comments you handled this report and its author most severely, but when you saw the remains again and some of the finds on your return to Cyprus in September 1950 you were good enough to apologise and to congratulate me on Dikaios' "careful and perspicacious research at Enkomi".

In your covering 1950 campaign, to judge by your last report to the Academie and by the volume now published, you evidently found much to confirm your new confidence in Dikaios' work. I will cite only your conclusions regarding: the date and cause of the fire on Floor V (cf. Dikaios typescript pp.182, 185); the earthquake about 1100 (cf. Dikaios p.180); the suggestion that Teucer's foundation may have been at Enkomi (your p.356), which in Dikaios' report (pp.184-188) you formerly considered "terribly adventurous", through "flattering to Philhellenic feelings" (an unkind innuendo). It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that Dikaios' report was, both as regards method and interpretation of the remains described, was not only "careful and perspicacious" but also a substantial contribution to our joint research at Enkomi, deserving mention as such in your volume.

I have no desire for further acrimonious correspondence but I would be failing in my duty if, considering as I do that due recognition has not been given to our work, I did not address to you this note of protest, which must stand pending some satisfactory acknowledgement.

P.O.T.A. Schaeffer, M.A., D.Litt., St. Germain-en-Laye.

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