Correspondence between Megaw and Schaeffer on excavation plots at EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer and Arthur Hubert Stanley Megaw

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DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES NICOSIA

Tel. No. :

Our Ref. : 36/36/4.

Your Ref. :

7th January, 1955

Dear Dr. Schaeffer,

With one interruption when the site became waterlogged Dikaios continued with a small staff at Enkomi until Christmas. We have now issued the enclosed communique. The attempt to build up the chronology of this part of the site, and to dove-tail it into the known history of the period, is of course provisional pending final study of the pottery.

Handwritten: (place Enkomi)

We transported all our dumps to the rocky area between the dig-house and the road to give the trees a better chance. Tree-planting has started.

I quite understand that why Forrer had to put off completion of the plan of the West Wall, as explained in your letter of 9th November, for which I thank you. I will get to work on the acquisition and connected questions when it arrives.

The Survey Department says we can get levels (with tripod) of the type of yours for about £30 in England and staffs for about £5. We have decided to buy it and have credited your account with £18 in accordance with your terms.

I was glad to hear of your further successes at Ras Shamra. I should certainly like to see that bossed masonry.

With all good wishes for 1955 to you and Mme. Schaeffer, in which my wife joins.

Yours sincerely,

Handwritten: signature

Dr. C.F.A. Schaeffer, M.A., D.Litt., Le Castel Blanc, 14 Rue Turgot St. Germain-en-Laye (S.et O.) France.