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Photograph·8_PV_2798·1949

Enkomi: inscribed clay balls in Cypro-Minoan script 1

Enkomi: inscribed clay balls in Cypro-Minoan script 1
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1949. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_2798. "Enkomi: inscribed clay balls in Cypro-Minoan script 1". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

A glass-mounted slide, 6 × 6 cm, showing inscribed clay balls from Enkomi in Cyprus, photographed by Claude Schaeffer in 1949.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Boules inscrites en écriture chypro-minoenne 1 (argile) Non identifiées.

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