Letter·34 CDF art. 168-3·14 July 1953

Correspondence between Megaw and Schaeffer on the silver bowl, the Cypro-Minoan tablet and Dikaios's workArthur Hubert Stanley Megaw and Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

Scan 1 of letter 34 CDF art. 168-3 (Correspondence between Megaw and Schaeffer on the silver bowl, the Cypro-Minoan tablet and Dikaios's work), typed in French. The transcription follows.

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

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Stamp: 9 - VII - 53 — written in green pencil underline

Partizan par Cavalier 2/IIIe (Var), after 31 July St Jerusalem ... ? After 31 Aug. c/o Institut Français d'Archéologie, B.P. 14-24, Beyrouth (Liban)

Dear Mr. Megaw,

Thank you for your letter of July 3rd with the copy of the communication sent in September last year. No, this report has not been sent me at the time.

I would be grateful to receive as soon as possible information of the Department's continued excavations at the agreed points and will what results in 1953.

I confirm my letter informing you of the return to the British Embassy of the Enkomi bowl together with the stand for dispatch to London in accordance with instructions left by you for all your authorisation.

Yours sincerely,

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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