Manuscript·34 CDF art. 172·1966

Draft 'Enkomi - Excavation results: City wall, flood damage'Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

Scan 1 of manuscript 34 CDF art. 172 (Draft 'Enkomi - Excavation results: City wall, flood damage'), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 172, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Enkomi Results of the excavations : Enceinte - Town damage by floods Interview with Dir. Ant. on the future of the Mission No guarantee that the work can be cont. by the miss. fr. at Enk. as at Salamis. English law maintained and worsened by adoption of the syst. fr. no find, no duplicate to the excavator.

Solutions 1) I told Kar. that I cannot accept this interpretation. Having uncovered the site of the town (anc. capit. of the Br. of Ch.) after clandestine excavations. then 3 official miss. Murray and Myres (English) and Gjerst. - Sjöqvist (Swedish) mistreated it, the most imp. and most signif. antiq. of Cyprus have since been found at E. and const. for the Museum an exceptional considerable enrichment. - The site uncovered and excavated with so much perseverance, 12 years requiring with evacuation of the spoil of the earlier excavations by the Fr. Miss. must be reserved for the M. Fr. which has made large investments there and formed a team of qualified researchers who wish to cont. the exploration after the departure of the present gen. dir. (= Sch.). - Recourse possibly to Makarios. - Support for my request also by the Municip. of Famag. Michall. next door. 2) Constitut. of an Institute of Archaeol. Research in Cyprus which will encompass the 2 miss. (branch pre = and protohist. at Enk.) classical branch at Salamis. No new constructions necessary simply maintain a permanent secretary Mikl. Vaios £ c. 720 l. ch. p. year (I pay already 300 Lch. act. p. Secrét) and man - wife of ch. and rep. pottery Mrs Spyrou c. 30 l. p. month = 360 Lch.

Margin left: 30 / 12 / 60 / 300 / 360. ; 12 / 2 / 24,0. / 24,0 / 24,0 ; = 2 Lch. p. jour

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

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