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

Printed: GOVERNMENT OF CYPRUS

Printed: DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES / CYPRUS

Printed: Nicosia, 26th June, 1953.

Printed: Our Ref.: 90/48/2.

Printed: Your Ref.:

Printed: Tel. No.:

[handwritten: 14.7. [illegible]]

Dear Dr. Schaeffer,

Dikaios is back from America and has put in hand what is to be our last campaign at Enkomi. He is working in the area of the North Wall. At the West end an extension has clarified the rather obscure elements revealed in last year's excavation and an outlying trench has established the line of the continuation of the wall. To the East also he is squaring off the area before going down to the lower levels. Here unfortunately the road is still blocking us, for although we have arranged for its permanent diversion outside the town wall, the work has only just started and until it is complete we cannot excavate the crucial area where the existing road crosses the wall.

When Dikaios was in Europe and America he was continually pressed to publish some preliminary account of our tablet fragment with a photograph so that the various experts now working on the Bronze Age scripts could utilize it in advance of the full account of our work at Enkomi, which cannot appear for some considerable time. In the end, with my concurrence, he agreed and two photographs have now appeared in Antiquity with notes by Dikaios and Myres, the latter indicating the Cypro-Minoan character of the script. One result is that this document is now available to Masson. As reproductions are never quite as good as originals photographs, I take the opportunity to enclose some prints and would be glad if you pass them on to Masson with our compliments.

Yours sincerely,

Handwritten: signature

[handwritten: [marginal note, rotated, along right margin: Dear Mr. Megaw, ... I am sending you ... the photographs ... [illegible] ... Enkomi ... [illegible]]]

[handwritten: [rotated note, left lower margin: Dear Dr. Schaeffer, ... cup ... silver ... [illegible] ... Megaw ... [illegible]]]

[handwritten: [rotated annotation, upper left of name block: Dr. Schaeffer ... [illegible]]]

Dr. C.F.A. Schaeffer, M.A., D. Litt., Le Castel Blanc, 14, Rue Turgot, St. Germain-en-Laye.

[handwritten: [rotated handwritten note, lower centre: Enclosures ... photographs ... [illegible] ... [illegible]]]

[handwritten: [rotated handwritten note, bottom left: [illegible] ... Megaw ... [illegible]]]

[handwritten: [rotated initials, lower left margin: [illegible]]]