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that I have received his letters rel. to the Mycenaean pottery of Ras Shamra, but that, because of my absence, my reply has been delayed. He will receive it under peu. Please accept, dear Colleague, with my regards for Mrs Dikaios to whom my wife sends her best regards, the expression of my best sentiments.
C. F A Schaeffer.
P.S. You have no doubt read in Antiquity the reports of Miss Kenyon on the Neolithic Jericho prior to the invention of pottery and her polémique with Braidwood (Ant. 1957, p. 73). We have found a Pre-Ceramic Neolithic at RS. which she was unaware of. To fix the equivalences elsewhere in the Near East, Braidwood, p. 76 alludes to Khirokitia. In relation to Jericho, what is, in your view, the chronological position of Khikokitia?
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain