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Printed: Telephone No. 61
No.90/48 AIR MAIL.
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DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES, CYPRUS.
Nicosia, 1st March, 1949.
Dear Schaeffer,
Thanks for your letter of 21st February to Dikaios and myself. I am glad we are now all agreed about the publication plans, and look forward to your estimate of the cost of printing Enkomi I.
Dikaios, who will be writing separately, is starting this week on the clearing up of the matters he left unfinished when digging stopped. I am having a session with him there on the architectural remains on Friday. He says he will have his report for the Academy ready in time for communication on April 1st. The contribution for the Illustrated London News joint article will follow, but he fears that June is too early a date for him to get his Enkomi I contributions ready as he plans to resume his diggings in April and May.
He will return your plan with his area marked and send a photo of the harpé. He is considering the relationship of the statue to the god Nergal mentioned in the Tell-el-Amarna letters as visiting Alasia with a pestilence.
I am glad to have your contribution of £100 for the small dig-house of which I sent you plans as I have been able to find the £140 which is needed, as our share, to complete it. The work is now being put in hand, not on the site itself, where I feel it would be much exposed to heat and dust, but in the more salubrious site on the escarpment which you suggested last year. I should like to go ahead also with the separate watchman's hut, at a distance from the house, as you propose, but will first have to look into our finances again to see what we can add to your £50.
Handwritten: Yours sincerely
Handwritten: signature
Dr. C.F.A.Schaeffer,M.A.D.Litt., Le Castel Blanc, 14 Rue Turgot, St.Germain-en-Laye, (Seine et Oise), France.
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