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Margin top: DIKAIOS
Printed: CYPRUS MUSEUM
24. November 1948.
Dear friend,
Mr Coche de la Ferté was kind enough to hand me your magnificent work on the 'Stratigraphie Comparée' with your letter. I wanted to reply to you immediately to thank you but I knew that you were leaving again for Turkey and on the other hand the hope of seeing you here again soon had led me to postpone the reply. I thought I would have the opportunity to thank you for sending your work in person and to tell you how admirable I find it. I had the opportunity (and above all the privilege) of seeing the first copy published at Oxford during my last visit this t August and I had been able to appreciate the enormity of the effort and the admirable results that follow from it. It is a monumental work that fills a gap in archaeological studies: it will certainly mark an epoch, what the English call "epoch-making". I had read your chapter on Cyprus already at Oxford and I find it admirably well written. It is a methodical and clear exposition: what we had really needed. I thank you for giving so much space to my modest contributions to the archaeology of Cyprus. I have also read your addendum on the discoveries at Philia and Ambelikou. I hope that one day I will be able to extend my research at these sites, especially the second, which seems very important to me. I even believe that one will be able
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