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

[printed: ΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ] [printed: ΥΠΟΥΡΓΕΙΟΝ ΜΕΤΑΦΟΡΩΝ & ΕΡΓΩΝ] [figure: Cyprus state emblem, faint; labels: none]

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Handwritten: 1973

[handwritten: Enkomi]

DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES NICOSIA

5th 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 1973 I quite understand your reasons and hope that I shall still be in this post in 1990 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 cadane" 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

Yours as ever

Handwritten: signature

(Vassos Karageorghis)

Professor Cl. F. Schaeffer Membre de l'Institut [illegible] Saint-Germain-en-Laye (S. et O.) France

VK/MP

Handwritten: pencil annotations in margins, illegible