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Photograph·8_PV_2588·1949

Enkomi: gold sphinx pectoral in sheet gold (tomb 2)

Enkomi: gold sphinx pectoral in sheet gold (tomb 2)
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1949. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_2588. "Enkomi: gold sphinx pectoral in sheet gold (tomb 2)". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

Glass-mounted slide, 6 × 6 cm, showing a pectoral with sphinxes made of sheet gold from tomb 2 at Enkomi, Cyprus. The photograph is by Claude Schaeffer and dates from 1949.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Pectoral aux sphinx, en or laminé (tombe 2)

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