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Photograph·8_PV_3543·1934

Enkomi: clearing of the "House of Bronzes"

Enkomi: clearing of the "House of Bronzes"
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1934. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_3543. "Enkomi: clearing of the "House of Bronzes"". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

Glass negative in gelatin silver bromide, 13 cm × 9 cm, showing the clearing of the "Maison des Bronzes" at Enkomi, Cyprus. Taken by Claude Schaeffer, dated 1934.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Dégagement de la "Maison des Bronzes"

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