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Archaeologist · Excavator · Expedition member · Scholar

Jacques Lagarce

fl. 1960–2015 · France

French archaeologist and excavator, active 1960–2015. Excavated at Enkomi. Dug for Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer; excavated with Olivier Pelon.

Life and work

  1. November–December 1962
    15th campaign of the French mission at Enkomi-Alasia, directed by Claude F. A. Schaeffer; with R. Kuss and J.-C. Courtois (CNRS), Mme Kuss (draughtswoman) and J.-P. Nicolardot, J. Lagarce served as 'assistants-archéologues et topographes'.

    EnkomiKarageorghis 1963

  2. 1963
    16th campaign at Enkomi (Schaeffer's mission), with the Courtois couple, J.-P. Nicolardot, W. Johnstone (Aberdeen) and R. Tamassia (Padua); Lagarce, 'boursier de l'École archéologique française de Jérusalem (Jordanie)', studied the northern sector, where a hemispherical bowl was found.

    EnkomiKarageorghis 1964

  3. 1970
    Resumed exploration of the Mycenaean (14th-13th c.) and post-Mycenaean wells and cisterns in his sector; with Mme Lagarce he was also put in charge of a sector at the end of the fifth E-W cross street, where tomb-robbers had abandoned their pits: an 'industrial' quarter with potters' kilns, bronze workshops and forges, dated 12th c. BCE.

    EnkomiKarageorghis 1971

  4. 1972
    M. and Mme Lagarce continued the 1971 work immediately south of street 5 and west of Residence 18: Middle Cypriot III pottery as the earliest occupation.

    EnkomiKarageorghis 1973

  5. 1985
    With E. Lagarce, published Alasia IV: two Late Cypriot tombs at Enkomi (Tombs 1851 and 1907), Mémoire 51 (Paris).

    ParisHermary 1986Given 2025

  6. 1986
    Co-author with J.-C. Courtois and E. Lagarce of Enkomi et le Bronze Récent à Chypre (Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation).

    NicosiaGiven 2025

  7. 1993
    Wrote the entry 'Enkomi. Fouilles françaises / French excavations' in M. Yon (ed.), Kinyras: L'archéologie française à Chypre (Lyon). Caubet's 1993 Louvre volume says 'Jacques Lagarce retraces here the essential traits' of Schaeffer's mission, which identified Enkomi as a city, not a necropolis.

    LyonGiven 2025Caubet 1993

Connections

6 people
Élisabeth Martin du Puyti…Claude Frédéric-Armand Sc…Jacques-Claude CourtoisOlivier PelonJ.-P. NicolardotR. TamassiaJacques Lagarce
FamilyFieldworkColleagues

Fieldwork & employment

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1963). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1962”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 87.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1964). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1963”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 88.
  3. 3.V. Karageorghis (1971). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1970”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 95.
  4. 4.V. Karageorghis (1972). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1971”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 96.
  5. 5.V. Karageorghis (1973). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1972”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 97.
  6. 6.Antoine Hermary (1986). “Chronique d'archéologie chypriote (1984-1985)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 5.
  7. 7.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
  8. 8.Annie Caubet (1993). “Les antiquités chypriotes au Musée du Louvre”. Kinyras : l'archéologie française à Chypre. Lyon. Online
  9. 9.Annie Caubet (2015). “In Memoriam : Élisabeth Lagarce (1941-2015)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 45, 11-13.
  10. 10.J. Lagarce, E. Lagarce (1985). Alasia IV. Deux tombes du Chypriote Récent d'Enkomi (Chypre). Tombes 1851 et 1907. Paris, Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations.
  11. 11.J.-C. Courtois, J. Lagarce, E. Lagarce (1986). Enkomi et le Bronze Récent à Chypre. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  12. 12.J. Lagarce (1993). “Enkomi. Fouilles françaises / Enkomi. French excavations”. Kinyras: L'archéologie française à Chypre. Table ronde, Lyon 5-6 novembre 1991.