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Abstracts for some of the Papers delivered at the Symposium. These are:

• "The state of the study of Proto-Elamite" by Professor Piero Meriggi
• "The Linguistic Situation of the 2nd Millennium B.C. in Ancient Anatolia" by Annelies Kammenhuber
• "Hieroglyphic Hittite: Some new readings and their consequences" by J.D. Hawkins and A. Morpurgo-Davies
• "The Study of Lydian" by Professor R. Gusmani.
• "Minoan Linear A" by John Chadwick
• "The Decipherment of Minoan and Eteocretan" by Cyrus H. Gordon
• "The Present State of Research on the Cypro-Minoan Syllabic Scripts - some attempts at interpretation" By Mme Emilia Masson
• "Problems and Deceipherment of Linear A" by J.T. Hooker
• "Archaeological Evidence for the Indus Script" by Professor B.B. Lal

Letter from Stuart Simmonds, President, Royal Asaitic Society, to Phil, School of Oriental and African Studies, to thank him for SOAS agreeing to host the Symposium and to ask whether they might also host a Sherry reception for the participants, dated 19 July 1973. Further correspondence accepting the invitation to the Sherry reception held at the Committee Room, School of Oriental and African Studies, on 24 July 1973. These are from Dr. R.D. Barnett, Mr G.A. Calver, Mr & Mrs J.T. Hooker, Professor and Mrs C.F. Beckingham, Sir Mortimer Wheeler, and Mrs J.M. Witt.