Letter·34 CDF art. 172·26 November 1966

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

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 5 of letter 34 CDF art. 172 (Letter from Schaeffer to Karageorghis on the flooding at Enkomi, West sector), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 172, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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corrugated galvanized iron sheets to make on the whole new construction a double roof, likewise on the old house over the part uncovered and badly re-covered by the contractor. This contractor, in my opinion, does not deserve the confidence. It is also clear that the architect of Nicosia responsible for receiving the construction did not make, or only superficially, his inspection before having me pay the price of the construction to the contractor. – These expenses additional have obliged me to carry over to my next budget the enlargements that I extensions planned for the camp to house storerooms for pottery and a workshop. – The floods having also waterlogged, and rendered inaccessible the floors and constructions cleared in the interior of the town, I have not been able to finish the work at the end of the campaign and p.c. shall we need to clean out all that before being able to draw the information from the stratigr. sections uncovered during this campaign. – In short, I have really nothing special to say to the newspapers, moreover about this campaign; it is preferable that we await the 1967 campaign to resume-

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