Manuscript·34 CDF art. 176·29 October 1955

Application for temporary exportClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 1 of manuscript 34 CDF art. 176 (Application for temporary export), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 176, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 1 of 2

Double (à rapporter).

Stamp: 25

Enkomi - Alasia Expedition , 29. Oct. 1955 . The Director of Antiquities Nicosia . Dear Sir, I would be grateful to permit temporary export of the following items, found during the 1955 season of excavations at Enkomi, for study. They will be returned next autumn at the beginning of our 1956 excavations, except the No= 47 } | fragments of pottery for " 117 } stamp seals | which I would be grateful No= 95 } | to prolong the permit until " 45 } cylinder seals | the material is published. " 64 } | Yours sincerely " 77 } | C F A Schaeffer No= 54 } " 63 } clay balls " 74 } with inscriptions " 46 }

A selection of potsherds contained in 55 paperbags.

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

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