Correspondence between Schaeffer and Karageorghis on the anniversary date of the discovery of the Enkomi-Alasia siteClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer and Vassos Karageorghis

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Handwritten: Chypr. 1973 / N. 0??

DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES, NICOSIA.

9th February, 1973

Dear Professor Schaeffer,

Thank you very much for your letter of 5th February which I read very carefully. Though it is a pity that we shall not have the pleasure of honouring you in 1974 I quite understand your reasons and hope that I shall still be in this post in 1980 to do it.

Next October I shall have the opportunity to be in Paris (en route for London where I have been invited to give the Mortimer Wheeler Lecture for 1973). I proposed to M. Dupont-Sommer to stop in Paris and read a short paper about the sacred gardens' recently discovered in the sacred area of Kition. I hope to see you then in Paris if you will not be abroad.

With all good wishes for you and Madame Schaeffer from my wife and myself.

Handwritten: Yours as ever, / Vassos Karageorghis (Vassos Karageorghis). — handwritten note: "Dear Prof. Schaeffer, Thank you for your letter of Feb 5th. I am sending you an offprint of my article on the gardens of Kition, as you asked. I hope to be in Paris then. Yours very much, Vassos Karageorghis"

Handwritten: Encycl. Univ. (Chypr) — 24.II.73 — Sce; and marginal note "Sp. 1.5?"

Handwritten: signature: Vassos Karageorghis

Handwritten: Ibid. Sacred gardens of Palaces, Ugarit IV, p. 17.

Professor Cl. F. Schaeffer, Membre de l'Institut, Le Castel Blanc, 14 Rue Turgot, Germain-en-Laye, (S. et O.), France.

VK/MAT.