Letter·34 CDF art. 169·1 August 1972

Correspondence between Schaeffer and Karageorghis on the 1972 Cyprus colloquiumClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer and Vassos Karageorghis

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Scan 19 of letter 34 CDF art. 169 (Correspondence between Schaeffer and Karageorghis on the 1972 Cyprus colloquium), handwritten in English. The transcription and translation follow.

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so many more splendide discoveries to be made and on neither site I could finish the work. They simply are to big for a lifetime's work. But now it is decided, I shall stay to finish my last books: Al. II well advanced, Ug. VII and the 2 volumes on Cylinder seals from Ugarit & Cyprus. I hope you can go on at Kition which is a quite particulier & unique site, I believe the great religious center of Cyprus. It would certainly be very rewarding to continue the work there. I have now decided to send you, my concluding remarks at the Symp. of which Åström has put at my disposal the taperecordings. It shall be proof that I am forgetting the accidents of the past and continue to stay in the Service of Cyprus Archaeology. — The typings now in hand will reach you in September. Yours sincerely C. Schaeffer.

P.S. I am making a research on stoneanchors of the type found at Ugarit, Byblos, Enk.-Al. Kition, Hala S. Tekke. One example has now been found on a protohistoric site along the Danube and

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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