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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 to set out before the Academy the first results of the sixth excavation campaign at Enkomi on the island of Cyprus, which took place from September to early November last.
My collaborators were again Messrs FLORIN and POTDEVIN, architects, joined by K. BUNKER, volunteer assistant, Georgios ANASTASIOU, preparator of the Nicosia Museum and Michael HALOS, who served as foremen and interpreters.
The number of local workmen fluctuated between 180 and 200 men.
The expenses of the mission were borne by the Commission des Fouilles archéologiques of the Direction Générale des Relations Culturelles.
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 1m high, the building has four carriage gates and large square windows. Constituted, as we are today certain, the palace of Enkomi of the second half of the 14th century and of the 13th century before our era.
However we are also certain that it is not a question of the reduc-
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