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Photograph·8_PV_3549·1934

Enkomi: Beginning of the excavations: general views

Enkomi: Beginning of the excavations: general views
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1934. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_3549. "Enkomi: Beginning of the excavations: general views". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

A glass negative with a gelatin silver bromide emulsion, taken by Claude Schaeffer in 1934, showing general views at the start of the excavations at Enkomi in Cyprus.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Début des fouilles : vues générales

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