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Enkomi Monastery of St Barnabas 30 May 1949.
Dear friend,
The enclosed letter was written, as you see, several weeks ago already. I held it back in order to be able to give you more details. I am sending it to you today itself, because it contains the state of the planned work at the date of 6 May.
As for the question of the earthquake: I am [handwritten: of my letter of 6 (since)] more and more convinced that it took place in L.C. III. We have not yet reached the Mycenaean ceilings, which show no stratigraphic sign relating to a catastrophe. The layer of destruction was observed between level (or floor) I and II, after which the floors follow one another in a natural manner and without an intermediate layer of destruction. Furumark's opinion (cited in your letter of 19 March) supports my observation. I would like nevertheless to reach the bottom of my stratigraphic layers before declaring myself definitively. That there was a catastrophe of seismic origin in L.C. III seems certain to me. But I would like to reach the bottom of the layers examined by me not before excluding such a catastrophe in the 14th century. I agree with you that even an earthquake of the 5th century may have shaken the walls of Enkomi, but the layer
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