Mission archeologique francaise d'Enkomi-Alasia

Not a collecting body: its finds were divided between the Cyprus Museum, the Louvre and Saint-Germain-en-Laye under the French partage law until its repeal, and later French missions leave finds in Cyprus (Caubet). (1993)

Caubet 1993

1. 1933–1958
   Under the French partage policy (repealed after the Ktima finds of the 1950s per Caubet), Enkomi material went to the Louvre and Saint-Germain-en-Laye as well as the Cyprus Museum: a Mycenaean pottery group (AO 18591), weapons and tools, and the bronze banqueting-god statuette (AM 2190-2191) from Building 18 entered the Louvre. Caubet states that after the repeal the finds of French missions stay in Cyprus. Terms of the Enkomi division itself (including Powell's report of a 'half-share' for Schaeffer) are not seen

   EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand SchaefferCaubet 1993Powell 2013

2. 1934
   Claude Schaeffer, on behalf of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, starts digging at Enkomi hoping to find the town on which the rich cemeteries (SCE 1930, British Museum 1896) depended; the first season finds a huge building and many bronzes and shows the town lies above the cemeteries

   EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand SchaefferTatton-Brown 2003

3. 1946–1947
   Schaeffer resumes at Enkomi for the CNRS after the war, tracing the Cyclopean town wall in the south; on 19 November 1947 a hoard of bronzes comes from a large building in the northern area, and an industrial quarter is found in the north-west where bronzes and ingots had reportedly been found earlier. This work precedes the joint Franco-Cypriot mission

   EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand SchaefferTatton-Brown 2003

4. November 1947
   Schaeffer and the Cypriot authorities (Director of Antiquities Megaw per Tatton-Brown) agree to form a joint Franco-Cypriot mission; from 1948 the Cypriot team under Dikaios digs mainly late summer or autumn and the French team in October-November

   EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand SchaefferPorphyrios DikaiosArthur Hubert Stanley MegawTatton-Brown 2003

5. 1949–1950
   The French team's seasons of 1949-50 find several intact tombs and a large building named Building 18; Megaw's report records the grid plan of the street system taking shape and a new stretch of town wall

   EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand SchaefferTatton-Brown 2003Megaw 1951

6. 1949
   Schaeffer, 'himself also excavating at Enkomi', bought two cylinder seals from the Famagusta dealer G. B. Palma, one in 1949 (Merrillees); a personal purchase, not an act of the mission, noted here because of the overlap

   FamagustaClaude Frédéric-Armand SchaefferMerrillees 2014

7. 1952–1954
   Annual Archaeological Reports describe the two sides still working separately in 1952-54: in 1952 the French did not resume digging but Schaeffer published results of 1946-50; in autumn 1953 and 1954 the French mission traced the town wall on the west, and Tatton-Brown notes the east side found 1953-54

   EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand SchaefferMegaw 1953Megaw 1954Megaw 1954Tatton-Brown 2003

8. 1952
   Schaeffer's Enkomi-Alasia (his second volume, on seasons 1946-50) appears; the first, Missions en Chypre 1932-1935, had appeared in 1936

   EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand SchaefferTatton-Brown 2003

9. 1958
   Schaeffer presented Enkomi material to the Ashmolean Museum ('Presented by Professor C.F.A. Schaeffer, 1958', e.g. AN1958.57, a Late Cypriot II bowl) and about ten vases of his 1949 Enkomi dig are registered in the Beirut National Museum as 'Don de M. Schaeffer' (1958)

   EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand SchaefferMuseumDunn-Vaturi 2007

10. 1962
    15th campaign (Nov-Dec 1962), directed by Schaeffer; team includes J.-C. Courtois, J. Lagarce and J.-P. Nicolardot (assistant archaeologists and topographers) and R. Kuss

    EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand SchaefferJacques-Claude CourtoisJacques LagarceJ.-P. NicolardotR. KussKarageorghis 1963

11. 1963
    16th campaign (autumn 1963): Courtois in charge of the southern sector, where the sanctuary of the Ingot God (12th century BC) is dated; the bronze statue of the god was found on 4 October 1963; W. Johnstone studies the brick tholos and R. Tamassia collaborates

    EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand SchaefferJacques-Claude CourtoisW. JohnstoneR. TamassiaJacques LagarceKarageorghis 1964

12. 1970
    21st campaign (Oct-Nov 1970) under Schaeffer as general director: O. Pelon examines two vaulted tombs in the town centre, J. Lagarce wells and cisterns, the Lagarces a sector at the end of the fifth east-west street (kilns, bronze workshops), Courtois post-Mycenaean houses

    EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand SchaefferOlivier PelonJacques LagarceÉlisabeth Martin du Puytison-LagarceJacques-Claude CourtoisKarageorghis 1971

13. 1971
    Alasia I (Schaeffer ed., 18 studies of Enkomi objects, ending with Schaeffer's discussion of the plan of Enkomi) appears; later volumes: Alasia II (1981, tomb pottery), Alasia III (1984, stratified objects), Alasia IV (1985, two tombs of 1967 and 1969), and a volume on cylinder seals (1987)

    EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand SchaefferJacques-Claude CourtoisTatton-Brown 2003Herscher 1995, p. 294

14. 1971–1973
    Leadership passes from Schaeffer to Olivier Pelon: BCH names Pelon director of the French mission for the March-April 1971 campaign; Nicolaou writes 'as from 1972'; OEANE gives Pelon 1971 to 1973 and Schaeffer 1946 to 1970. Pelon's 1971 sector (4 W, west of the 'Temple Area') and the 1972 (23rd) campaign in 4 W and the rue 5 sector are reported

    EnkomiOlivier PelonClaude Frédéric-Armand SchaefferKarageorghis 1972Karageorghis 1973Nicolaou 1976Meyers 1997

15. 1972
    Work west of the temple of the Horned God: an ashlar building with a limestone lion figurine on a floor, a tomb with many vases from about the mid-sixteenth century BC, and two scales of armour among many bronzes, called the first such armour in Cyprus; a fragmentary Cypro-Minoan tablet was found under the floor of an ashlar house in the southern sector (reported 1969-76)

    EnkomiOlivier PelonNicolaou 1976Nicolaou 1973

16. 1974
    The 1974 war ends field research at Enkomi, which lies in the area north of the line

    EnkomiMeyers 1997

• Bronze statue of the Ingot God, found in the southern sector, 4 October 1963

  from Enkomi, sanctuary of the Ingot God1963Karageorghis 1964

• Bronze banqueting-god statuette, Building 18

  Louvre AM 2190-2191from Enkomi, Building 18via Claude Frédéric-Armand SchaefferCaubet 1993

• Group of Mycenaean pottery from Enkomi

  Louvre AO 18591from Enkomivia Claude Frédéric-Armand SchaefferCaubet 1993

• Late Cypriot II bowl

  Ashmolean AN1958.57from Enkomivia Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer1958Museum

• About ten vases of the 1949 Enkomi dig, Beirut National Museum, 'Don de M. Schaeffer'

  from Enkomivia Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer1958Dunn-Vaturi 2007

• Limestone lion figurine, ashlar building west of the Horned God temple

  from Enkomi1972Nicolaou 1976Nicolaou 1973

• Fragmentary Cypro-Minoan clay tablet with a long inscription, found under the floor of an ashlar house

  from Enkomi, southern sectorNicolaou 1976