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Photograph·8_PV_3537·1934

Enkomi: Engraved greenish steatite vase (tomb 6)

Enkomi: Engraved greenish steatite vase (tomb 6)
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1934. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_3537. "Enkomi: Engraved greenish steatite vase (tomb 6)". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

Glass negative photograph by Claude Schaeffer of an engraved greenish steatite vase from tomb 6 at Enkomi, Cyprus, dated 1934. The photograph was published in Schaeffer's Missions en Chypre : 1932-1935 (1936), plate XXXV, figures 3 and 4.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Vase en stéatite verdâtre gravé (tombe 6)

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