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partly raised on which the water of the spring is distributed according to a strictly regulated and supervised rationing by a council of the village elders. We obtained from the Antiquities Service in Ankara the authorisation to excavate the hill called Ali Tepé and we shall tackle it next month. It will provide us with without doubt [handwritten: perhaps] the complement of inforstratigraphic and chronological information which we currently lack for the study of the tumulus site of Malatya.
In concluding, I would like to mention the assistance which was lent to us by the Ministry of National Education and the Antiquities Service in Ankara and the support we found with the Valí of the vilayet 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. The chair attached to this discipline founded by Kemal Pasha remains to be filled and I know that the University would be favourable to a French candidature. I would wish that the Academy might be able to provoke it.
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