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Field photograph·C_3600·1969

Upper part of a terracotta calathos with sphinx

Upper part of a terracotta calathos with sphinx
Photograph: 1969. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, C_3600. "Upper part of a terracotta calathos with sphinx". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Colour slide C_3600

English, translated from the French record

Terracotta upper part of a calathos decorated with a sphinx, inventory Inv_4995, in the south-east area of square K VI/δ4, area south of the rampart; colour slide C_3600, negatives 01170_05 and 01170_04. 3 September 1969.

French, as on the record

Inv_4995 Tc haut de calathos à sphynx negatif= 01170_05 negatif= 01170_04

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