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Letter·34 CDF art. 169·1972

Correspondence between Schaeffer and Nicolaou on temporary export rights for antiquities from EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

Scan 2 of letter 34 CDF art. 169 (Correspondence between Schaeffer and Nicolaou on temporary export rights for antiquities from Enkomi), typed in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 169, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 2 of 8

Bleed-through from reverse side, mirrored; transcribed as legible

27 December 1972

Dear Curator Cyprus Museum NICOSIA Island of Cyprus

Dear Curator,

I have the honour of asking you kindly to extend by one year the right of temporary export of the antiquities found by the French Archaeological Mission at Enkomi-Alasia between 1957 and 1970, according to the list (1) enclosed. The objects of 1970 are still in Mainz for restoration.

Please accept, Dear Curator, the expression of my distinguished regard.

C.F.A. SCHAEFFER

Member of the Institut Honorary Professor at the Collège de France Director General of the French Archaeological Mission at Enkomi-Alasia

(1) FILE 36/36/7 bis 34-35, FILE 36/36/7 bis 65, FILE 36/36/7 bis. 65-66.

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

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