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Field photograph·C_4479·1970

Bronze head of Zeus or Claudius, slide C_4479

Bronze head of Zeus or Claudius, slide C_4479
Photograph: 1970. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, C_4479. "Bronze head of Zeus or Claudius, slide C_4479". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Colour slide C_4479

English, translated from the French record

Colour slide C_4479 showing a bronze head, identified as Zeus (or Emperor Claudius), photographed in silhouette, from the Temple of Zeus sector, square E VII, subsquare E VII/γ5. Dated 13 November 1970; object references A49.10, A49.12 and A49.12.

French, as on the record

Tête de bronze, zeus (ou empereur claude) ombre chinoise carre ter A49.10 A49.12 carre princ :E VII chantier :Temple de Zeus carre sec : E VII/γ5 Α49.12

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