Correspondence between Schaeffer and Hundt on the objects from EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer and H.-J. Hundt

Figure: handwritten annotation in upper right margin and a faint diagonal sketch mark at upper left; not transcribed

Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum MAINZ

Tgb. Nr. 69/1882 65 Mainz, den 18.6.69 Ernst-Ludwig-Platz 2

Herrn Prof.Dr.Claude F.A.Schaeffer B.P.16 La Croix-Valmer 83 (Var) France

Handwritten: Fragen; underlined diagonally

Handwritten: Von Doerr! ... Schaeffer? illegible handwritten annotations in margin

Dear, very honoured Herr Prof. Schaeffer,

Many thanks for your letter of 11.6. Surely you have meanwhile received my letter, in which I informed you that Frau Kron-Forrer has already begun to draw the bronze wagon after our cast. She is still at work on it at present. Today I want to answer your questions concerning the construction of the wagon straight away. The base frame was in any case cast in one piece. I would like also to believe that all the figures on it were cast together with the frame in one working process. You know how badly damaged the bronze was. But I think that if the individual figures had been riveted on, one would have had to see something of it . I believe in casting in one working process. The perforated attachments of the frame, which are intended to take the axles, are in any case cast together with the frame. Very roughly I give the individual views in sketch:

Figure: line drawing of a wagon frame in three views (top plan view with rectangular frame and figures, side elevation at right, and lower view beneath); labels: none

The axles certainly consisted of quite thin bronze wire, since the axles

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