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—— —not yet deciphered script to which belongs also the Enkomi tablets. The new document will be published in Ugaritica IV now in preparation (I hope the diff. copies of Ug. III have now reached you, Dik. & the Mus. Libr.). It would be interesting to publish at the same time the several short inscriptions (on clay balls, copper ingots & a tablet fragment unfortunately much worn) found by me at Enkomi. In principel, these finds shall be published in my 2nd vol. of Enk-Alas. together with other finds of the combined expedition. But if you are agreeing to it, I would publish them first with the R.S. tablet in Ugaritica IV and return to them in Enk-Al. II
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Dear Mr Megaw, Thank you for your letter of Jan. 11th and the text of your press com. about the recent work at Enkomi & Salamis. Please give Dik. my congratulations. I am looking forward to see the new material when I return to Cyprus what should be in November if things are going to be normal in Syria, and if not, I shall begin in Cyprus, that is to say, I would arrive to start at Enkomi in the second half of September. As soon as we are nearer the time I shall confirm my plans. I think I told you that we have found a complete (Cypro-?) Minoan tablet at Ras Shamra, last November which presents to Masson & Chadwick some chance to find the key to that … continues
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