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I shall not fail to send it to you as soon as the offprints reach me. It is somewhat technical; so I shall write shortly a third one on the names of Cyprus in which it will be seen that these names were given to the island because of its copper mines. As you have established against Davies in your "Missions en Chypre" and in your "Stratigraphie", at the time of the Archives de Mari, the island was already called the land, the island of "copper" (alaš). This Sumerian appellation takes us back to the 3rd millennium as regards the mining industry of the island. The kings of the dynasty of Agade must not have been unaware of the presence of copper in Cyprus.
Please present, I beg you, my respectful regards to Madame Schaeffer, and please believe me, my dear colleague and friend, your cordially devoted
G. Dossin.
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