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of what you rightly say on pp. 10 to 12. – The excavations will decide whether the identification with Alasia is correct. I advise you to wait before settling on this subject. All that, however, does not make me guilty of having underestimated the hold of Mycenae and of the Achaeans over the island, (p. 12) on the contrary, I am and I have set it out, the first archaeologist who provided material proof on this subject. P. 14: there are helmeted gods too, I believe; to wish to admit that one has made at so early a date a secular bronze of this importance, seems difficult to defend. – Cyprus is an outpost of Mycenae facing the Syrian and Anatolian mainland. Nevertheless, at a very early date, the island was first colonised from Asia, and Herodotus was right. – If you disagree with the tendency of Mr Dussaud to connect e.g. a little too many things from Cyprus with Asia, do not hold it against me. P. 11, your just remarks seem directed at me. – I shall not reply publicly, for I admire in you a master and a great creator of ideas. But you do not make admiration easy. Please believe me, dear Master and colleague, yours cordially devoted C. F. A. Schaeffer.
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