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Photograph·34 CDF art. 179·1952

Enlargement showing the niello and damascening technique, for "The Bull Cup from Enkomi-Alasia, technical report"

Enlargement showing the niello and damascening technique, for "The Bull Cup from Enkomi-Alasia, technical report"
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1952. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 34 CDF art. 179. "Enlargement showing the niello and damascening technique, for "The Bull Cup from Enkomi-Alasia, technical report"". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

A paper print of an enlargement showing the niello and damascening technique, intended for the technical report on the bull cup from Enkomi-Alasia. It is an unpublished proof extracted from Claude Schaeffer's Nouvelles missions en Chypre 1946-1950, dated 1952, with the item in Cyprus.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

["Agrandissement montrant la technique du nielle et du damasquinage" prévue pour "The Bull Cup from Enkomi-Alasia, technical report", extract from C.F.A. Schaeffer, Nouvelles missions en Chypre 1946-1950 - épreuve non publiée]

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