Letter 34 CDF art. 168-4, Three letters to Schaeffer concerning Enkomi, and a letter from Dikaios on the discovery of a sanctuary, 1936, scan 11 (1936)

Unnumbered pageScan 11 of 12

Printed: CYPRUS MUSEUM

Stamp: embossed royal coat of arms

[written sideways: [?congrat.8/IV/36.]] Nicosia, 30.3-36.

Dear friend,

I thank you for your letter of 12 March and I apologise for replying so lately. I have just returned from my excavations at Khirokitia which have been crowned with great success. I have found a sanctuary of the Stone Age of unique importance and of surprising dimensions. It is a large house circular, 9 m. in diameter. Around it there exists an enclosing wall of a thickness of 3-4 metres, and a height of 3-4 metres. Inside there are two offering tables rectangular, and near them human skeletons one of which was in a very curious position. Between the circular house and the enclosing wall sacrifices were made: circular offering tables, and animal bones, burnt materials were found in quantities. The finds consist of vessels in stone (diabase or limestone) of a beauty … continues

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