An article on Alasia-EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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KNAPP, STERN; 3rd Sub-Commission: President M. VANDIER, MM. BAIL- LOU, COHEN, KNAPP, MONTET; 4th Sub-Commission: President: M.MERLIN MM. GRENIER, PICARD, ROBERT; 5th Sub-Commission: President M.RIVET MM. COHEN, LEVI-STRAUSS, TEILHARD de CHARDIN, as well as the Secretary- General of the Commission.

The President gives the floor to M.R. DUSSAUD, member of the Institut, for the presentation of the conclusions of the lère Sous-Commission.

lère Sous-Commission: ASIA ANTERIOR AND NEAR EAST.

A. The Sub-Commission proposes the allocation of grants following from the 1951 budget:

Mission of FARA (Palestine) (estimate): 1.200 L. Pal. Mission of Christian Archaeology,(Lib.-Syria) credit proposed 18.000 L. Lib. Mission of ENKOMI (Cyprus), estimate: 392.000 Frs. + 2.100 L. Chy. Mission of XANTHOS (Turkey) " : 275.000 Frs. + 13.000 L. Tur. Mission ROBERT (Turkey) " : 303.000 Frs. + 19.190 L. Tur. Mission RAS SHAMRA (Syria) " : 460.000Frs. + 45.000 L. Syr. Mission PALMYRA (Syria) " : 420.000 Frs. Mission MARI (Syria), credit proposed: 5.140.000 Frs. Mission YAZILIKAYA (Turkey), est. BETHANY CAVE (Palestine), credit proposed 11.100 L. Tur. 50 L. Pal.

TOTAL of grants proposed or estimated on the budget of excavations for 1951: 23.500.000 Frs.

B. Publications to be entered in the 1951 budget:

Parrot-Dossin, Archives de Mari, vol. VI to VIII 500.000 Frs. Schaeffer, Ugaritica II 231.000 " Coche de la Ferté, Mycenaean Pottery from Enkomi 300.000 Frs. Herdner, Corpus of cuneiform tablets from Ras Shamra Schaeffer, Enkomi-Alasia, I 750.000 " Louvre Library 500.000 " Hittite and Asianic Review 100.000 " 60.000 "

TOTAL of grants proposed for the budget of 1951: 2.441.000 Frs.

The President thanks M. Dussaud for his report. The conclusions of the lère Sous-Commission are adopted.

Regarding the excavations in Turkey, the President reports to the Commission a step by the Turkish Minister in favour of French cultural activities in this country.