The new discoveries at Enkomi in Cyprus, excavation season of autumn 1950Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

Communication to the Académie des Inscriptions

1st June 1951

on:

(excavation campaign, autumn 1950)

Mr President,

I have the honour of presenting to the Assembly the first results of the fourth excavation campaign at Enkomi in the island of Cyprus, which took place in September and October last.

The collaborators were: Mr. PLACIDE LE ROUZIC and [illegible] Messrs [illegible], John M. SQUIRE, volunteer assistant, Georges AMARADINO, preparator of the Nicosia museum, as surveyor and draughtsman.

The number of local workmen varied between 150 and 200 men.

The Mission's excavations were carried out in collaboration with the Cyprus Antiquities Service, [illegible] the archaeologists at the Directorate General of Antiquities.

The autumn 1950 campaign was devoted essentially to the exploration of the large settlement discovered the previous year in the western part of the town and of the neighbouring necropolis.

During these two months, we were able to study a cutting area, of which certain Mycenaean-period objects recall the best we have had, [illegible] in four cottes [illegible] and the large trench [illegible] constitutes, but in certain communication. It seems surprising for the period after the 14th century and the 13th century BC [illegible].

Towards the south-west, we reached the settlement [illegible] of the floor of Alasia, corresponding to the phenomenon [illegible] IV whose older levels were found [illegible] by the correspondence of the [illegible].