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, ΑΝΤΙΚΟΤΗΤΩΝ (Cyprus emblem)

Stamp: 3/1/73

DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES NICOSIA

2nd January, 1973

Dear Professor Schaeffer,

The year 1974 will mark forty years of excavations at Enkomi, and in this event I would like to be in-focus. I will propose to Government to honour you, as the discoverer of Enkomi and all those who worked at Enkomi since 1934. If you agree with the idea I shall put it forward to Government, by suggesting that you and Madame Schaeffer should be invited officially to spend a week in Cyprus in 1974, which is the time that suits you best? In the beginning of November a suitable period?

My wife joins me in sending you and Madame Schaeffer our best wishes for the New Year.

Yours very sincerely,

Handwritten: signature

V. Karageorghis

Prof. Cl. Schaeffer, Membre de l'Institut, 16 Quai Malaquais, Paris 6e, FRANCE. (c. et c.)

Handwritten: Schaeffer's annotation, illegible; "Mars" or similar