Letter·34 CDF art. 183·1 September 1946

Letter from Schaeffer to Madame Durroy (?) with the second report on Enkomi and Cyprus Mail press cuttingsClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Typed in French and Greek. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 3 of letter 34 CDF art. 183 (Letter from Schaeffer to Madame Durroy (?) with the second report on Enkomi and Cyprus Mail press cuttings), typed in French and Greek. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 183, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 3 of 19

Stamp: ULUS

kinda Şam'a g-

Diğer taraftan Fas - Şamra hafriyatında büyük başarılar kazanan tanınmış Fransız Arkeologlarından Pro. Dr. Claude Schaeffer Malatya yakınlarındaki Aylan tepede kazalar yapmak üzere dün şehrimizden ayrılmıştır.

{hw: ULUS August 18, 1946.}

tararara vaamyon daesaslara olanlara ı dağıtıma ıda alınan ilere bildi-

Alpman, Güreli, Muamm. İbrahim Nedim simi B. Perkso Solako

Handwritten: 1st September 1946

[illegible]eological French [illegible] of [illegible]Tépé, near Malatya an unknown civilisation dating back to about 2.000 years BEFORE OUR ERA

A French archaeological mission- as new and is characterised Hittite. -ise under the direction of Professor by a fine painted pottery; it- In the depths of the hill- Claude F. A. SCHAEFFER, direc- has also delivered a few idols ne, the French mission has observed tor at the National Centre for Scientific Re- religious ones of an already known type and the existence of remains even more search Scientific, curator seals in which the influence is detected older, dating back to the epochof the Museums of France, assisted by M. que chalcolithique, vers 2000 ans Etienne COCHE de la FERTE, attach- avant notre ère environ. ed to the Louvre Museum, and M. L'importance des découvertes Paul PIRONIN, architect, has just dues à ces fouilles, les premières completed a campaign of excavations qui aient été entreprises par une misat Arslan Tépé, near Malatya. On sion étrangère en Anatolie depuis this site, a French mission direc- la guerre, va probablement engager ted by the late L. DELAPORTE, la France à faire poursuivre les redied in Germany in a camp cherches à Arslan Tépé l'année proof concentration, had, before the chaine. war, cleared the ruins of a pa- A son retour à Ankara, le profeslace, Hittite, decorated with sculptures now- seur SCHAEFFER a exprimé sa retoday exhibited at the Hittite Muse- The U.S.A. intends connaissance pour le concours acte, in Ankara. to try the industrialists cordé à la Mission par le Directeur Nazi, war criminals General of Antiquities and of Mu- The researches that have just a- Washington. — During sées, Mr Hamit Koşay and his collabhave had the aim of exploring of a press conference, the collaborators, at Ankara, as well as by the still controversial chronology President Truman announced the Vali of Malatya and his services of the palace of Arslan Tépé and of the rem- that the United States intends The French archaeological missionains of earlier civilisations. It has tion to try, after the trial -ise has just left Ankara by has been established that the Hittite palace and of Nuremberg, the principal air to Cyprus. its sculptures are older than it chief Nazi industrialists, considwas admitted following the first ered responsible for the discoveries. crimes of the Hitler regime. It has specified however that a deci- In the deeper layers, sion, a definitive decision would not be prithe remains of a civilisation dating back- se on this question, before the end of ing to the start of the second and end of trial, and that the U.S.A. studof the third millennium were brought- ies the question at present. to light. This one presents itself to us

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