Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Photograph·8_PV_3538·1934

Enkomi: Fighting bulls, relief on the shoulder of a large jar (14th century)

Enkomi: Fighting bulls, relief on the shoulder of a large jar (14th century)
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1934. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_3538. "Enkomi: Fighting bulls, relief on the shoulder of a large jar (14th century)". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

Glass negative (gelatin silver bromide, 13 × 18 cm) by Claude Schaeffer, dated 1934, showing a relief of fighting bulls on the shoulder of a large jar from Enkomi, Cyprus. The photograph was published in Schaeffer's Missions en Chypre: 1932-1935 (1936, p. 83, fig. 34).

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Taureaux combattant : relief sur l'épaule d'une grande jarre (XIVe s.)

Corrections and additions

Can you tell us more about this photograph?

Many of the people, places and objects in these photographs have never been identified.

We would like to hear about

  • Who is in the photograph, or where it was taken
  • When it was taken
  • The object shown, and where it is now
  • Another photograph of the same scene or object
Write to us

or alexis@ancientcyprus.com

Tell us if you would like to be thanked by name on the page.

More from Enkomi

2,488 items in the archiveThe site →

Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)