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Communication to the Académie des Inscriptions 1st June 1951. on: THE NEW DISCOVERIES AT ENKOMI IN CYPRUS ---------------------------------------------------- (Excavation campaign, Autumn 1950)
Mr President,
I have the honour of setting out to the Academy the main results of my fifth excavation campaign at Enkomi on the island of Cyprus, which took place from September to early November last.
My collaborators were again MM. PIRONIN, LE POITEVIN and FORRER, architects, joined by M. SUFFERT, volunteer assistant, Georgios ANASTASIOU, preparator of the Nicosia Museum and Michael VAIOS, served me as foremen and interpreters.
The number of local workmen fluctuated between 120 and 200 men.
The expenses of the Mission were met by the Commission for Archaeological Excavations of the Directorate General of Cultural Relations.
The campaign of 1950 was devoted essentially to the exploration of the large building discovered the previous year in the western part of the town and its surroundings.
Distingué par ses beaux murs en pierres de taille, dont certains blocs de l'assise inférieure mesurent 3m de long sur 2m de haut, le bâtiment muni de quatre portes cochères et de grandes fenêtres carrées, constitue, nous en sommes maintenant certains, le palais d'Enkomi de la seconde moitié du XIVème siècle et du XIII ème avant notre ère.
However, we are also certain that it is not the residence of the king of Alasia, corresponding to the Pharaoh Amenophis IV, whose well-known messages were found among the correspondence of Tell
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain