Jean Jehasse

In October 1964 Jean Jehasse went to Salamis with Jean Pouilloux to choose where a French mission would dig. He was then an assistant in French literature at Lyon, and the excavator of the pre-Roman necropolis of Aléria in Corsica, which he published with L. Jehasse in 1973^1,2,10. In his memoir he calls himself Pouilloux's "électron libre" at the Institut Fernand-Courby¹.

When Pouilloux asked Georges Roux to make the trip, Roux withdrew at the last moment, and Jehasse accepted and left the next day¹. After a reception at Nicosia by Vassos Karageorghis and Jacqueline Karageorghis, the two men spent a week at Salamis. With the British report of 1890 in hand they walked the site on a grid for seven hours a day and chose three areas: the Campanopetra, a passage for a rampart, and the highest sector for stratigraphy^1,3.

He was a member of the first French mission of 1965, in the spring and again in the autumn³. Marguerite Yon calls Pouilloux and Jehasse the pioneers of the Salamis excavations². Karageorghis's reports credit him with working out the layout of the upper southern rampart in the spring of 1966, an east-west wall with north-south spurs 4 m apart, and with recognising its rock-cut and clay-packed construction, which was checked in 1968^5,6. The ceramic study of the rampart, Salamine VIII (1978), is by Laurence Jehasse⁷.

He published "Le rempart méridional de Salamine" in the proceedings of the Lyon colloquium of March 1978, which appeared in 1980 (pp. 147-152)^7,8. His memoir of the 1964 reconnaissance appeared in 2014¹.