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most foreign ones shows that Swedish archaeologists have gradual-
ly attained to a particular form of publication which in many
cases has aroused great interest in other countries and has been
taken as a model there. It is highly to be hoped that this con-
tact with international achaeology, which Sweden has at length
established, must be allowed to grow still closer during the period
of peace which everybody hopes will soon begin.
The work at the further development of this contact within
the sphere of international science and scholarship in the first
place is based on the more or less permanent archaeological institu-
tions in Sweden. The archaeological institutions of the Universi-
ties of Uppsala, Lund, Göteborg, and Stockholm should perhaps
in the first place be mentioned. But perhaps the new-founded
institutions will be of still greater importance for the contact with
foreign countries, the Swedish Institute in Rome and the Cyprus
Museum and the Egyptian Museum in Stockholm. If only because
of its location in Rome it is obvious that the Swedish Institute
must constantly be in the centre of the archaeological investiga-
tions of Sweden. Among the museum institutions in Sweden per-
haps the Cyprus collections through their size will appear as the
most notable both to the studies in Sweden and to international
co-operation. The enormous material of finds carried home by
the Cyprus Expedition is a direct result of our excavations in
Cyprus. Thus they are not, as so often elsewhere, the results of
purchases through many years, of objects about which we have
not otherwise much information, but a scientifically uniform col-
lection of unique importance in its kind. The Cyprus collections
in Stockholm perhaps are the largest and at any rate the scienti-
fically most important and many-sided collections of Cypriote
antiquities outside Cyprus, and it is most likely the largest col-
lection of objets d’art which ever reached Sweden from abroad.70
In the Cyprus collections in Stockholm also are kept the part of
the finds from Asine which at the division fell to the share of
Sweden, as well as considerable comparative collections from e. g.
Asia Minor.
The chief interest of the Egyptian collections of course is in
70 'Westholm, Cypernexpeditionen som museiinstitution, in Ord och Bild,
1938; —, Cypernsamlingarna, Sveriges mest betydande antiksamling,
in Nordisk Familjeboks Mlnadskrönika, 1939, p. 443. Exhibition
catalogues of the Cyprus collections are Gjerstad, Fynden fran Cypern
(1933) and Westholm, Före Fidias (1941).