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Antiquities taken away last year for study. Visit to the Embassy where Amb. Keller was absent, interview with Chargé d'affaires Rigodon: he informs me of the results favourable to de Gaulle of the elections parliamentary, I explain to him my plans for the excavations from 1963 and that I shall propose an increase in credit or grouping of the campaigns by two with intermediate years without excavation. — Afterwards I sign my name in the register of President Makarios. Return to the Museum to see the new rooms and Mycenaean finds of Larnaca, with an astonishing rhyton in faience showing two men in costume Syrian and pschent with a band holding bulls by lasso at one foreleg. The attitude of the animals (also of gazelles) and of the filling motifs ((drawing)) branches stylised recall strongly my cup and my gold phiale of R. S. I believe that the rhyton of Larnaca in polychrome faience is of Syrian manufacture or made in Cyprus by a
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain