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 Secretaire General of the Commission.

The President gives the floor to M.R. DUSSAUD, member of the Institut, pour l'exposé des conclusions de la lère Sous-Commission.

lère Sous-Commission: ASIE ANTERIEURE ET PROCHE-ORIENT.

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

Mission de FARA (Palestine) (forecast): 1.200 L. Pal. Mission d'Archéologie Chrétienne, (Lib.-Syria) cred. prop. 18.000 L. Lib. Mission d'ENKOMI (Cyprus), forecast: 392.000 Frs. + 2.100 L. Chy. Mission de 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. GROTTE DE BETHANIE (Palestine), cred. prop. 11.100 L. Tur. 50 L. Pal.

TOTAL of the grants proposed or foreseen on the 1951 excavation budget: 23.500.000 Frs.

B. Publications to be entered in the 1951 budget:

Parrot-Dossin, Archives de Mari, vol. VI à 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 750.000 " Schaeffer, Enkomi-Alasia, I 500.000 " Louvre Library 100.000 " Revue Hittite et Asiatique 60.000 "

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

The President thanks M. Dussaud for his report. The conclusions de la lère Sous-Commission sont adoptées.

Regarding the excavations in Turkey, the President draws the Commission's attention to a step taken by the Minister of Turkey in favour of French cultural activities in that country.