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the work after repairing the water damage. From 1967 onwards I am in fact inaugurating the system of which I spoke to you, of one major campaign alternately at Enkomi, then the following year at Ras Shamra. — We shall begin with Alasia. My wife and our Swiss friends have had an excellent stay at Famagusta and all three are very keen to repeat it next year. I look forward to being able to stay a little longer on each of the two sites. On the other hand, the saving in travel will benefit the publications. Volume II of Enkomi - Alasia is progressing well, moreover. —
I have returned the volumes you kindly lent me from the library of the Museum; 2 of the pamphlets have been resent back from Beirut after the photocopies were made. — I wanted to ask you too whether your thesis has already been published; I believe it concerns Mycenaean pottery of Greece and Cyprus, and also the origin of the chariot krater, located at one time in mainland Greece, at another in the islands and in particular in Cyprus. — Last question: do you by any chance know the subject of the Mycenaean vase fragment of which the enclosed sketch (Enk. 66, inv 52, Pt 1437). I
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain