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23.XI.46.
Dear Professor Persson, I have came back returned a fortnight ago from my excavations at Enkomi where I have now found stale several parts of the important Bronze Age town which occupied the site formerly considered as a simple necropolis. Among There are several town layers superimposed, the earliest uncovered until now going back to the Middle Bronze period. Among the finds of the mycenaean town level are a great number of terracotta balls found together in heaps. As Their form is l'o thus (drawing) . I think they should be compared with the specimens found by the British excavators in Enkomi and mentioned in your study Some inscr.... Have you reproduced the specimens in your study? What I cannot find this study then unfortunately, my own library having been partly burned down by the Germans in my house. If you can dispose of an offprint I would be grateful to you, if not please indicate the form and size and weight of the balls. If Gjerstad is in your reach, please give him my best regards remembrances. Let me also now, please, what you have published during the war. I have to catch up with whats during 1939-45 there was I was for me very for time to cut off from your country.
[margin right: I have not had an occasion opport. to ask inquire about your news after my return from England and the E the my service as Naval officer during the war which I have spent with General de Gaulle in England. I hope you are in good health and continuing your archaeological work. My wife sends you her best regards remembrances. I have since 1945 taken returned to my work and began excavations again this year in Turkey and Cyprus.]
Yours sincerely
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