Letter·34 CDF art. 168-4·1 May 1949

Five letters from Dikaios to Schaeffer about the excavations at EnkomiPorphyrios Dikaios

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Typed in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 16 of letter 34 CDF art. 168-4 (Five letters from Dikaios to Schaeffer about the excavations at Enkomi), typed in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 168-4, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Handwritten: mirror-image handwriting, pencil; the page appears to be photographed reversed, so the transcription below is provisional

the Sunday is trying.

Dear Mr. Schaeffer, I am obliged to write to you ... [illegible] ... This year we will not be able to carry out the work at Enkomi in August, because the [illegible] is late. We have [illegible] the tomb [illegible] and the plan [illegible] all of it is already at the [illegible] ... [illegible] we are lucky to [illegible] the [illegible] of Ramses.

I am sending you the plan of the site in [illegible] ... [illegible] points [illegible] Mr. [illegible] ...

It is [illegible] that we found the [illegible] with the [illegible] of [illegible] ... I am sending you [illegible] ... Mr. Dikaios [illegible] ...

Figure: pencil sketch of a rectangular block of three boxes above a long rounded shape with a circle at right and an arrow pointing down; labels: none

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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