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 9 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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asks whether the two figures do not have their arms bandaged or padded, and whether they are two wrestlers? - Did I send you the offprint of my short report on RS 1965 in AFO, 1966, showing a very late type of krater with armed men, wearing armour and holding horses. According to the chronology obtained at R.S. with the help of newly discovered texts (to appear in Ug. V), this final type and so far peculiar to R.S. dates from between 1200 and 1175. - I shall speak of it in the next volume of the Ugaritica.

My wife and I were very touched by the pretty coffee service that you so discreetly left for our attention at Enk.-camp; the first surprise over, we first wanted to scold you for making such an expense. The service will be inaugurated, with you, in 1967!

Please present to Madame Karageorghis our friendly remembrance and believe me, dear Colleague, sincerely yours

C. Schaeffer.

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

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