Letter from Schaeffer to the director-general of the Commission des Fouilles on balancing the Enkomi mission's budget, with an expenditure statementClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

The Director of the Enkomi Mission.

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Excavations at Enkomi (Ile de Chypre)

St. Germain en Laye, 15 November 1946

The Director of the Enkomi Mission

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Mr the Secretary General of the Commission des Fouilles, the Direction Générale des Relations Culturelles, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, PARIS.

I sent you on 15 and 30 September and on 16 October three reports on the work and scientific results of the Enkomi Mission. I have the honour of sending you today a report on the use of the funds placed at the disposal of the Mission.

Expenditure was generally below forecasts, with the exception of that concerning local labour. I reported on 15 and 30 September last the difficulties encountered following two successive strikes provoked by communist threats, and the arrangement finally concluded with the 'trade unions' after a temporary suspension of the excavations. Under the terms of this arrangement, the workman's wage was fixed at 11 shillings per day, that of women at 9, and of young people between 4 and 8 shillings, whereas the budget had provided only 5 shillings and a half per workman per day. Expenditure on labour therefore exceeded the forecasts by about 500 Pounds.

The budgetary balance was restored as follows: 1° The expenses planned for the purchase and hire of excavation equipment could be reduced from 225 to 62 Pounds thanks to a loan of equipment granted by the military authorities and obtained through the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus; 2° In agreement with those concerned, the salaries of the architect and the draughtsman of the Mission were paid in Syrian money and charged to the budget of the Ras Shamra Mission; 3° The travel costs from Turkey to Cyprus and from Cyprus to Syria were also borne by the budget of the Ras Shamra Mission.

In the attached statement I have entered the forecasts in brackets next to the actual expenditure. I add 66 supporting documents in chronological order, together with a copy of the excavation concession.

The Director of the Enkomi Mission.

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Stamp: Commandant Claude F.A. SCHAEFFER, Directeur de Recherches, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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