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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 for the Académie 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 [handwritten: -] LE POITEVIN and FORRER, architects, joined by M. SUFFERT, volunteer assistant, Georgios ANASTASIOU, preparator of the Nicosia Museum, and Michael VAIOS, who served me as area foremen and interpreters.
The number of local workmen varied between 120 and 200 men.
The expenses of the Mission were borne by the Commission for Archaeological Excavations of the General Directorate of Cultural Relations.
The 1950 campaign was devoted essentially to the exploration of the large building discovered the previous year in the western part of the town and its surroundings.
Distinguished by its fine ashlar walls, some blocks of the lower course of which measure 3m long by 2m high, the building, provided with four carriage gates and large square windows, constitutes, we are now certain, the palace of Enkomi of the second half of the XIVème century and of the XIII ème before our era.
[handwritten: C] However, [handwritten: N]e are also certain that it is not the residence of the king of Alasia, corresponding [handwritten: d] 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