Letter·34 CDF art. 175·1972

Correspondence between Schaeffer, Pelon and Nicolaou on objects lent to and returned late to the Cyprus MuseumClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer and Kyriakos Nicolaou

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

Scan 2 of letter 34 CDF art. 175 (Correspondence between Schaeffer, Pelon and Nicolaou on objects lent to and returned late to the Cyprus Museum), typed in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 175, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 2 of 8

Printed: ΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ, with emblem

36/35/17 [handwritten: number, partly illegible]

Printed: DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES

Printed: OF CYPRUS.

Handwritten: Dear Sir, handwritten note at left margin, partly illegible

Nicosia, 13 December, 1972.

Handwritten: D.S. ... objets inventaire 21.49 & 21.111 and ... ; partly illegible

Handwritten: Dear Sir

Please find enclosed a list of objects which were lent to you for a temporary exhibition and which were to be returned within one year from the day of export.

As you see in this list there are objects which were lent to you since 1957 and which have not been returned, and the contract has not even been renewed.

I would be most grateful if you would return as soon as possible all the objects borrowed from 1957-1970.

Handwritten: signature

K. Nicolaou Curator of the Archaeological Museum For the Director of the Department of Antiquities.

Mr Olivier Pelon Head of the Mission French Mission at Enkomi-Alasia.

Handwritten: handwritten annotations in right margin and at bottom, mostly illegible

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

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