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Printed: DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES, CYPRUS
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Memorandum of 21st November, 1947. I enclose a carbon copy made and signed at the time, and as it is rather battered a clean copy, which will be complete if you sign it. To the latter I have attached the subsequent letters which brought the memorandum into operation.
Licence to excavate. I issued a renewal last year and in anticipation of your resuming work at Enkomi last October I held it here to hand you on arrival. I am enclosing it in this letter. This renewal runs for two years from the expiration of the original licence dated 9th August 1945 (3rd September was the date of your acknowledgement). A further renewal will be issued before your arrival in September and in the meantime I shall consult our legal experts about the third party clause so that any necessary adjustment may be included.
Publication. I agree with your proposal that you send me the total production costs of Enkomi I when available and that I should pay our proportionate contribution into your Expedition account at Barclay's in Famagusta.
I should point out that our total initial outlay on this and subsequent volumes is not limited. What we have to ensure is that when we have received our share of the receipts from sales and taken account the value of any free copies we receive our net deficit on the publication of all volumes is not more than £500.
Dikaios' contributions to Enkomi I. I am glad you have been able to advance the "dead-line" until 1st August. This may leave sufficient time for him to benefit in the definitive publication of the statue from any comments he may receive on the I.L.N. article. He has written his contribution for the latter and I shall send it to you as soon as we have prepared the photographs.
In principle your proposals, particularly having regard to the circumstances of our collaboration, seem reasonable... [remainder of this paragraph is not legible in the scan]
Our current excavations. As indicated in my last letter, the only extension of the area dug last winter which we contemplate is a narrow strip along the east side at the south end, in order to take in the whole of a room, the floor of which has yielded some useful sub-mycenaean pottery. The main task of reducing the level within the area has been resumed after the Easter holidays.
The bulk of the earth from the winter campaign was removed by lorry to the extreme north of the property purchased, where you also dumped. Dikaios hired a lorry by the day and was satisfied with the rate of progress. We have not acquired any vehicle or earth-moving gear of our own. The earth now being removed is being left temporarily alongside the trench. Dikaios is not hopeful of getting any of it removed for the improvement of rocky land at the owner's expense.
Future Policy. While there is much to be said for filling in trenches in land which we have not acquired, if they contain no important remains, I had not envisaged this being done in any area which had been bought. Indeed I secured the Government's share of the cost of the land bought largely on the grounds that the remains excavated would constitute an asset to the Government as a tourist attraction and should therefore be kept open. Another difficulty is that the plots we bought by means of the Government machinery for compulsory acquisition of land
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