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Cyprus Museum Nicosia, 23/11
Dear Professor Schaeffer, I hope the Excavation is going on well and that you have better time than here, where the rainy season has already started.
I simply write to say that good progress has been made in the mending of your pottery. I had to change the first man and employ another one, because I was not satisfied with his work. The pithos fragment with the inscription fits on other pithos fragments which you found this year. There is a snake all round the pithos. The silver bowl has been photographed to-day. The God is blissfully continuing His bath.
If any of the members of the Expedition are coming here on their way back (Courtois and Buccholz I think?) please ask them to let me know exactly the date of their arrival because there will be many other colleagues here in December, and being the end of the year I am extremely busy and want to know exactly when and how long they will be here. I shall, of course, be very pleased to do anything I can to help them.
I should advise Courtois to stay a few days here to … continues
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