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Printed: MINISTÈRE DES AFFAIRES ÉTRANGÈRES
Printed: LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE PARIS
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partly raised,[handwritten: ʃ] by means of which the water from the spring is distributed according to a strictly regulated and supervised rationing by a council of the village elders. [handwritten: |] We have obtained from the Antiquities Service of Ankara permission to excavate[handwritten: stroke] the hill called Ali Tépé and we shall begin there next month sans doute [handwritten: peut-être] it will provide us with the complement of information stratigraphic and chronological which we currently lack for the study of the twin site of Malatya.
In concluding, I would like to mention the assistance which we was lent by the Minister of National Education and the Antiquities Service at Ankara and the support we found from the Vali of the village of Malatya and his services. The university of Ankara has also invited me, on the occasion of my stay, to give a series of lectures on Anatolian archaeology ian. [handwritten: |] The chair attached to this discipline, founded by Kemal Pacha, remains to be filled and I know that the University would be favourable to a French candidature. [handwritten: |] I would wish that the Academy might bring it about.
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