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Ds letter to Od. de St. Ger 6-XI-53
For the moment, I think I can leave again on Thursday the 12th or Fri. 13, but that depends on the visits and last arrangements. We must finish, this time. So you will be ready at Enkomi for the Thursday 12 ct. Tell Forrer the following: Thursday 12, he must peg out the trenches at the positions marked on the attached sketch, in the order I to IV Engage the workmen and women of Enkomi and others villages, then the carts for the spoil. Fri. 13 begin clearing the surface layers have all the finds even the most insignificant triangulated, stop everywhere at the level of the first visible floor. Attention, it is in these floors or on these floors that the last deposits of Alasia are found, e.g. our statuette on armchair in bronze of 1950. If for one reason or another he cannot excavate in this region, he could search by means of soundings as in 1946 + 47, the continuation of the enclosure south and west of the town, see sketch-plan. If this too is not possible before our arrival draw the objects from tomb 2 of 1949: diadems - gold pectorals, three gold rings + engraved cartouche, 2 earrings, alabaster cup in the form of a bird,
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain