Notebook·34 CDF art. 124·1950–1953

5th and 6th seasons at Enkomi, excavation notebookClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Handwritten in French and German. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 11 of notebook 34 CDF art. 124 (5th and 6th seasons at Enkomi, excavation notebook), handwritten in French and German. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 124, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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[printed: Le Directeur de la Mission Archéologique Française]

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Dear Dr.Plenderleith,

Having received Megaw's agreement, I am sendung you through the kind offices of the British Embassy in Paris, the finds from Enkomi (Cyprus) you so kindly accepted to examine and to have restaured. They are: Two copper votive ingots, Inv.nr.2 and 3 one tablets with minoan script, Inv.nr.5 one figure of a bull, bronze, Inv.Nr.47 one figure of Teshoub-Reshef,bronze, Inv.Nr. 1 two fragments of a bronze sicle, Inv.Nr.16. one fragment of a cylinder seal,lapis, Inv.Nr.8. one clay ball with inscription, Inv.Nr.6. one ivory, top of a handle, Inv.N.46.

Some of these objects have not been mentioned in my previous letter as I had not the papers with me. I hope you agree to deal with them also. 4 When your examination and work is finished, I would be grateful to you to have send the little parcel directly to the Directo of Antiquities, Cyprus, Nicosia. I shall be in Cyprus in the second half of september and stay until october 15th. I would be glad of course to see again the finds after your treate ment and to have the photos for the publication made. I shall be ind London end of August,and hope to see you if you are in the museum at that time. With many thankds, Yours sincerely 29.VII.54. [stamp: Claude F.A. SCHAEFFER]

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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