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the Horned God which is the central piece of the whole Bronze Age & Iron Age antiquities in your Museum and which will be extraordinarly suggestive for the study of the origine of Greek Art and of the still so obscure and formative period of the Early Iron Age as a whole as soon as it is scientifically published, and the silver and gold bowl from our T. 2 which is the most important and best preserved piece of the art and craftsmanship of the Cypro-Mycenaean civilisation so far known.
These two exceptionel finds tilt the scale of the balance to the bottom in favour of the Cyprus Museum.
I see at the present moment only three solutions which might help to restaure the position in view of obtaining a real or near real half share to which the Law entitles the French Expedition.
One solution could be found by compensating the French Exped. share with the help of an "outside" antiquity which in artistic value and historical significance would be equal in importance to the silver and gold bowl from our tombe 2. In that case your second proposal could otherwise be adopted.
Another solution involving only the new finds
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