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… lectures on General History of Art, devoted to the art of the Orient ancient. I showed it to my colleagues at the Louvre - where it had not yet been seen - and they greatly admired the engraving and the fine presentation of the object, in the absence of the text, which they could obviously not yettake note of!
My arrival in Paris, delayed by the fog, took place on 30 November. Regarding the end of my mission in Cyprus, of which I have already spoken to you by letter, nothing to add, except that the day before the departure, I still found some bags of sherds that had not been cleaned! But I think that now everything is there. I have brought an assortment to Paris and was able on the way to compare some of them with the Mycenaean fragments of the sherd-collections … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain