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[printed: HAUT-RHIN 68] 23 July 1973 . Dear Curator, I thank you for your letter of 4 July and for the photographs of bronze objects from the 1965 campaign, which on our side we will try to identify. I deplore the damage suffered by your storerooms during the flood, but I hope you have been able to restore the essentials. I hope to be able to come in next October to Nicosia (around the 12/15) and in that case, I will bring back the objects from my last excavation campaign at Enkomi (1971) which have been restored at the laboratory in Mainz where I collected them a fortnight ago. I will bring back also the earlier objects on temporary export . Having seen once again the skill of the restorers at Mainz, I renew to you my proposal to entrust to them the statue of the ingot god whose treatment has not been completed. There are details of this bronze so significant which could be brought to light and the corrosion halted in certain places. I return from Cyprus at the end of October by boat in
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain