Letter·34 CDF art. 169·1 July 1965

Correspondence between Schaeffer and Karageorghis on the excavations, Ducos and his study of the Salamis horsesClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer and Vassos Karageorghis

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… send his over a bit later. Then will arrive also Johnstone & his wife, I want that he finishes the exploration of the house with the astonishing tholos structure found last year before joing in the general dig with Courtois (and perhaps Lagarce) along the inner perimeter of the western and northern town wall. I hope to find at this occasion also some more information about the street system which is not yet clear in the part south south of our present explorations. When I arrive we shall return to the iron age layers in the central & eastern part of the town where we found the horned god on the ingot. - I hope his treatment is now coming to an end in your laboratory and that the details of the costume & others are getting lisible. - As result of the important & so much informative finds about the XII-XIth c. during the two last campagnes, I have put twice as much funds in our Enkomi

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