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 Institute for the presentation of the conclusions of the lère Sub-Commission.

lère Sub-Commission: ANTERIOR ASIA AND NEAR EAST.

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

Mission to FARA (Palestine) (forecast) : 1.200 L. Pal. Mission of Christian Archaeology (Lib.-Syria) cred. prop. 18.000 L. Lib. Mission to ENKOMI (Cyprus), forecast: 392.000 Frs. + 2.100 L. Chy. Mission to 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), cred. prop.: 5.140.000 Frs. Mission YAZILIKAYA (Turkey), forecast. GROTTO OF BETHANY (Palestine), cred. prop. 11.100 L. Tur. 50 L. Pal.

TOTAL of grants proposed or forecast for the excavation budget of 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 of Enkomi 300.000 Frs. Herdner, Corpus of cuneiform tablets from Ras Shamra Schaeffer, Enkomi-Alasia, I 750.000 " Louvre Library 500.000 " Revue Hittite et Asianique 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 Sub-Commission are adopted.

Regarding the excavations in Turkey, the President draws the Commission's attention to an approach by the Turkish Minister, in favour of the activities of French cultural activities in this country.