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Directorate General of Cultural Relations. 14 May 1946. ---
Handwritten: Budg 1947?
CYPRUS MISSION (Mediterranean)
Direction: Commandant C.F.A. Schaeffer, Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, assisted by an architect, a draughtsman, a secretary-accountant. [handwritten: [illegible]]
Location and Aim of the Research: Main excavations at Enkomi near Famagusta (35°50' lat. N, 34°55' long. E). Clearance of a maritime city of the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC and of Bronze Age necropoleis.
Start of the Research: summer 1947. [handwritten: March 1947 ?] [handwritten: Spring]
Budget: 8.000 Cypriot Pounds or 1.440.000 Frs.
| Cypriot Pounds. | |
| Transport of Mission and Equipment Syria-Cyprus-Syria | 150 |
| Hire of driver and car | 150 |
| Upkeep of Mission for 60 days | 360 |
| Purchase and hire of heavy equipment | 225 |
| Architect's salary 3 months | 150 |
| Draughtsman's salary 3 months | 150 |
| Foreman and Inspector of the Antiquities Service | 125 |
| 2 Team leaders for 90 days of excavation | 100 |
| 100 workmen " " " " | 1.250 |
| Hire of the excavation site | 275 |
| Compensation for destruction of crops | 50 |
| Miscellaneous and unforeseen | 15 |
TOTAL: L. Chyp. 3.000
Francs 1.440.000
Payments: 1946 [handwritten: [illegible]] (= 228.000) Subsidy to be paid to Commandant Schaeffer by through the French Consul in Cyprus (Larnaca). [handwritten: 1947 Personnel ... 2400 Cypriot pounds (= 4.?00.000) [illegible]]
Handwritten: Consul General ... Mr. ... Bailey ... Consul General of France at Beirut ... Cyprus
[handwritten: Transport to be arranged [illegible]]
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain