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Letter·34 CDF art. 169·29 June 1957

Letter from Schaeffer to Karageorghis asking him to renew the excavation permit of the French MissionClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Scan 2 of letter 34 CDF art. 169 (Letter from Schaeffer to Karageorghis asking him to renew the excavation permit of the French Mission), typed in French. The transcription and translation follow.

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Paris, 29 June 1957.

Sir, Director of Antiquities of Cyprus, Nicosia (Island of Cyprus).

I have the honour of asking you to renew the permit for excavations of the French Archaeological Mission at Enkomi (district of Famagusta) which expires on 9 August of this year.

The 1957 excavation campaign will take place either at the end of September or in the month of November, with the participation of MM Kuse, de Contenson and Miller under my direction. I will inform you of the precise date as soon as he arrives in Beirut on S/S Baptiste ?, on 27 September next.

Please accept, Sir, the expression of my very distinguished sentiments.

C. F.-A. Schaeffer member of the Institut de France professor at the Collège de France director of the French Archaeological Mission

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