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… his material and conclusions and yours. If in this respect form his report has shortcomings, this was large/gely due to the undesirability of making references to/preliminary reports,which will be superseded and possibly revised by Enkomi I. It would also provide an opportunity for co-ordinating terminology and chronological systems if it is agreed that the two parties need not use the same (e.g. LCIII = Fer. I, date of Trojan war etc.).
The presentation of the material now available in three volumes as you propose seems quite satisfactory. Since our volume would be entirely financed by the Cyprus Government, it would be necessary for us to make arrangements for printing in England, which to judge from the figures you have kindly quoted for printing in France would not cost us more. As to your draft title pages, my only suggestion is that somewhere Enkomi Vol. I (or II) should appear rather prominently (perhaps on the spine of the book) to ensure that writers will make their references in this simple form rather than the longer titles of the individual volumes.
Our 1950 Excavations. I propose to divide the work into three parts:
(1) The main campaign now in progress, covering the north wall, the westward extension of the "compound" and some supplementary work in rooms of the compound excavated in 1948- 1949.
(2) While you are at Enkomi, small-scale digs at agreed crucial points to elucidate chronology of the erection and first use of the compound. I envisage these as oneday affairs (such as Dikaios undertook two or three times while writing his report) which would be done when Dikaios and I pay you our periodic visits. These should have,
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