Letter·34 CDF art. 169·10 January 1950

Letter from Schaeffer to Megaw about the Enkomi objects that were shippedClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Scan 3 of letter 34 CDF art. 169 (Letter from Schaeffer to Megaw about the Enkomi objects that were shipped), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

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to another job and cannot return to Cyprus before our next season. Especially tombs 2, 5 & 11 are needed. Finds on loan. I shall check the finds when they arrive at the Louvre and correct what then is found not to be in order ( I had to take much more with me than I intended. There is no experienced photograph in Byr. for colour photos). When repacking the finds for the transport to P. the following numbers were found to be present: 4003, 4, 6, 9, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 26, 26a, 29 30, 33, 34, 38, 43, 49, 50, 54, 55, 56, 58, 60, 62, 63, 65, 66, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 84, 85, 86, 88, 89, 91, 92, 97, 99, 4110 4110, 4200, 01, 02, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 22, 24, 25, 40, 41, 42 4300, 4500, 40, 41, 43-49, 51, 52, 53, 54. 4675, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 4714, 16, 67, 4827, 28-32, 51-53, 66, 4900-04, 10-14, 16, 17-23, 4926, 27, 53, 5023, 24, 26, 27, 29, 54, 57, 58, 59, 5101, 03, 05, 06, 07, 10, 12, 14, 15, 24-28, 31, 35, 36, 37, 39 5142, 43, 44, 45, 46, 52, 55, 56, 57, 59, 5256, 58, 59, 5256, 58, 59. — 2001, 2082, 2217, 2323, 3506. We noticed the absence of the following numbers which we thought to have taken with us. But as, in order to simplify the job we did not always take out all the packing material of the boxes, the missing items may be at the bottom & come to light in P. The

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

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