Letter from Schaeffer to Karageorghis on the flooding at Enkomi, West sectorClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

Margin top: III

I should be grateful if you would inspect the situation at the first opportunity and obtain the assistance of the Public Works Dept. A few 10 to 20 cm more, the water would have also submerged and the mud smeared Area N of the Dept. of Antiquities, with the fine stretch of enceinte that can be seen there. — As regards the part of the field road carried away by the current and at the outside of the enceinte and of the West Gate, I should be grateful if you would postpone the repair until after our 1967 campaign. I should like to take the opportunity to make an excavation outside the enceinte to see whether it has not, as at Kition, a ditch and a counterscarp. The few cars which pass there can make a small detour through the field. On the east side, we also had to repair some breaches in the small earth ramparts raised along the limits of our excavations, the waters coming down from the cliff have have, there too, poured through breaches into the old excavations. — Finally, the new maison a et eu, dans chaque chambre, + la cuisine, 3 to 5 penetrations of water through the newly built roof, and the rain has come through doors and windows. My architects have noted an astonishing negligence of the builder. I have had to buy