Letter·34 CDF art. 168-3·23 March 1953

Correspondence between Schaeffer and Megaw on the 1953 season, the silver bowl and the tablet found by DikaiosArthur Hubert Stanley Megaw and Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

Scan 4 of letter 34 CDF art. 168-3 (Correspondence between Schaeffer and Megaw on the 1953 season, the silver bowl and the tablet found by Dikaios), typed in English. The transcription follows.

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

Unnumbered pageScan 4 of 4

Printed: GOVERNMENT OF CYPRUS

Printed: DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES

Printed: NICOSIA.

Figure: circular government seal; labels: none legible

Printed: Our Ref.: 26/36/2

Printed: Your Ref.:

Printed: Tel No.:

Handwritten: 14.16 = pub. Syria

Handwritten: 6e-24 1129/xx

Handwritten: 10.49 Lmuvé ou.

Printed: 23rd March, 1953.

Printed: Dear Dr. Schaeffer,

Thank you for your letter of 15th March.

I am glad to hear that you have been able to make arrangements for the exploration in the fonds.

I am sure that you will be glad of the opportunity to have this new condition.

I am going to take this opportunity [illegible] in the field of the [illegible] [illegible] and shall be pleased to see the [illegible].

I have been able to put the [illegible] into the [illegible] and am much obliged for the [illegible].

Handwritten: 11.8 3 4

Handwritten: 2 copies = Archives

Handwritten: 2

Printed: Expert opinion on the script of Dikaios' tablet

Printed: Cypro-Minoan.

[handwritten: R H 38, p.1 ]

Handwritten: Dute n° 10/46 =

[handwritten: ]

Printed: St. Germain-en-Laye.

Printed: 11 Rue Thiers,

Printed: Le Casket Blanc

Printed: Dr. C.F.A. Schaeffer

Handwritten: signature

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

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