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[printed: LA CHAUMIÈRE] [stamp: 72]
Printed: FRÉLAND
[printed: HAUT-RHIN, 68] 25 Aout 1972.
Dear Colleague, I have before me your message of Aug. 5th. My letter of July 29th was not destined to critizize your organisation of the Symposium of which I was, as everybody, very satisfied. My orally expressed feelings were entirely sincere. When I shall one day return to Nicosia, I will give tell you the motives of some of my remarks and you will see that there is no intention on my part to damage our personal relations. There is however at them bottom a serious problem of Cyprus History and Archaeology of which I am sure that further research and excavations will prouve that the thesis of the late arrival of Achaean settler-refugies from Mycenae to build that splendid City of Enk.- Alasia in the XII-XIth c. is wrong. Cyprus was drawn into the orbit of the Mycenaean civilisation and settled by Achaean long before. It was too early after the premature death of Dikaios to publish during the Symposium the documents which prouve how his dating mistake came about. When Pelon next september reaches the fifth floorlevel in the new ashlar building which stands at the depth of his excavations of 1971, please go there and see what finds he will take out. I am sure they will be
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