Élisabeth Martin du Puytison-Lagarce

Élisabeth Martin du Puytison-Lagarce excavated a quarter of bronze workshops and potters' kilns at Enkomi. She studied at the École du Louvre from 1961, finishing first in its concours in 1964, and from 1964 worked as documentaliste for the Egyptologist Jean Leclant, who steered her toward the Egyptianizing side of Cypriot and Levantine material: ivories, faience, goldwork bowls and iconography. She entered the CNRS in 1965 and became directeur de recherche in 1988¹.

Annie Caubet first saw Cyprus with her and Jacques Lagarce at the Nicosia congress of spring 1969. The couple married a few weeks later and worked together for the rest of their lives, at Enkomi until the Turkish invasion and afterwards at Ugarit and Ras Ibn Hani¹. In the 1970 campaign, under the general direction of Claude Schaeffer, M. and Mme Lagarce took a sector at the end of the fifth east-west street that tomb-hunters had left because the deposits were so deep. It proved to be an industrial quarter of potters' kilns, bronze workshops and forges of the 12th century BC, with a building whose limestone gargoyle bore a late Cypro-Minoan inscription². They resumed there in 1971 under Olivier Pelon³. In 1972 the street 5 site produced Middle Cypriot III pottery, workshops that lasted into the 11th century and a bull-head seal cut from a composite-ware cup⁴.

She contributed the Egyptian and Egyptianizing finds to Fouilles de Kition II (1976), co-published the Enkomi tombs 1851 and 1907 in Alasia IV (1985), and with Jacques Lagarce wrote pages 59 to 216 of Enkomi et le Bronze Récent à Chypre (1986)¹. She died in 2015¹.