Document·34 CDF art. 168-4·15 September 1947

"Mission de Chypre" budget for spring-summer 1949Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

Scan 1 of document 34 CDF art. 168-4 ("Mission de Chypre" budget for spring-summer 1949), typed in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 168-4, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 1 of 2

Handwritten top-left: 3

Printed: FRENCH ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION

15 September 1947

Handwritten: Enkomi (Isle of Cyprus)

CYPRUS MISSION (Mediterranean)

Direction: Commandant C.F.A.Schaeffer, Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, assisted by two architects (MM. Pironin and Forrer), of a secretary-accountant, and an archaeologist (M. Coche de la Ferté).

Handwritten: ✓

Location and aim of the Research: Main excavations at Enkomi near Famagusta (32°50' lat.E, 34°55' long.N.) Clearance of a maritime town of the 3rd and 2nd millennia before our era, and of the cemeteries of the Bronze Age.

Handwritten: Spring or summer 9

Period of Research: Winter 1947 and 1948.

Handwritten: 1.062 = 2.124.000 Frs

Budget: 2.000 Cypriot Pounds at 480frs = 960.000 Frs

Pounds Cypriot

Transport of Mission and equipment Syria-Cyprus-Syria150
Hire (Driver and car) [handwritten: without driver]150
Maintenance of mission during 40 days250
Salary of the architects, 2 months200
" of the archaeologist, 2 months100
" of the secretary-accountant, 2 months80 40 40
Team leader 50 days of excavation1.000
Workmen at 10 shillings, 40 days of excavation0 40
Miscellaneous and unforeseen
TOTAL: L.Chyp.2.000

Handwritten: 5 2.124.000

Francs960.000

Handwritten: 2.124.000

Payments: 1949 [handwritten: 9]

2.000 Cypriot pounds (= 960.000 Frs), to Commandant C.F.A.Schaeffer (address: Barclay's Bank, Famagusta) through the intermediary of M. the French Consul in Malta and the French Consular Agent at Larnaca (Isle of Cyprus).

Handwritten: corrected per deos 1949

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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