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dimensions are nevertheless so vast that a newseason of excavation will be necessary before it be possible to determine its nature. For the first time in this sector of the town traces of earlier buildings have been encountered of the Late Bronze. They attest that the Capital of Cyprus of the IInd half of the IInd millennium succeeded an settlement dating back to the Middle Kingdom Egyptian (XVIIIth-XVIIth c. B.C.), as finds isolated earlier had suggested. The director of the Expedition did not conceal that q the hope of finding the archives of Alasia probably located in the town's palace has not yet been realised. No text has been found during this season. The excavations will therefore be resumed in autumn 1961. Before taking the plane, Professor Schaeffer had the honour of being received by His Beatitude the Archbishop Makarios, President of the Republic, to whom he reported on his excavations and set out his plans for future research. He expressed his thanks to the Antiquities Department directed by Mr P. Dikaios for the assistance provided, as well as to Mr V. Karageorghis, conser-
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