Manuscript·34 CDF art. 158·1971

Draft summary report on the 21st season of excavations at Enkomi, March–April 1971Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 2 of manuscript 34 CDF art. 158 (Draft summary report on the 21st season of excavations at Enkomi, March–April 1971), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 158, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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[?in italics] Summary report on the \overline{XXI}e Excavation Campaign at Enkomi-Alasia (Cyprus), March - April 1971

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by [illegible] Olivier Pelon J.-C. Courtois , E. and J. Lagarce and C. F. A. Schaeffer (Pl. XIX - XX)

in italicsIntroduction. The XXIst campaign of excavation carried out on the site of Enkomi-Alasia lasted from 15 March to 10 April. Apart from Mr the professor C.F.A. Schaeffer, who attended the start of the workand gave us the benefit of [illegible]<s> his experience of the site,/ the team excavation team, led by Olivier Pelon, consisted of Jacques-Claude Courtois, (William Johnstone,) Élisabeth and Jacques Lagarce, Carmen Sauvage, Martine Sillanoli, Dominique Beyer, Luc Pfirsch, and James Robinsonand Christopher [illegible]<s> Edens/ ; the architects were Paul Garczynski and Françoise Laroche. Mr Vassos Karageorghis, director of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus, followed the work with sympathy and he came several times to visit at the site. Moreover, Mr Jean de Garnier des Garets, ambassador of France in Nicosia, gave his help to the excavation at the moment when material problems arose. The research covered different areas of the town. Some constituted the continuation of work undertaken begun earlier. Thus W. Johnstone completed his study of the tholos in brick and stone found in 1963 (1) in view of the publication which is to appear shortly in Enkomi-Alasia II. J-Cl. Courtois completed for his part carried out the clean- the exploration up systematic of of an area rectangular situated in the sector where a terracotta roll inscribed in 1967 was discovered (2), immediately east of the tombs built in Syrian type which were also cleaned this yearre-examined by O. Pelon. Finally E. and J. Lagarce resumed their research west of the main street north-south, on either side of the [illegible] street 5, not far from the build- a new area which was [illegible]

1, written diagonally: [illegible[written upside down on a pasted strip: Excavations of Enkomi-Alasia in the island of Cyprus, campaign of 1971 Report preliminary Summary on the XXIe campaign after / same / in Syria, 1968, p. 26]]

(1) P. Dikaios, French Archaeological Mission and Cyprus Government Joint Expedition to Enkomi, vol. I, p. 153 ss.

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