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Photograph·8_PV_2590·1950

Enkomi: seated deity on a bronze throne (floors I and II)

Enkomi: seated deity on a bronze throne (floors I and II)
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1950. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_2590. "Enkomi: seated deity on a bronze throne (floors I and II)". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

Glass-mounted slide, 6 × 6 cm, of a bronze statuette of a seated deity taken by Claude Schaeffer at Enkomi, Cyprus, in 1950. The statuette was found alone on floor II, placed on the throne removed from the hiding place on floor I.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Divinité assise sur un trône en bronze (sols I et II) Statuette trouvée isolément sur le sol II placée sur le trône retiré de la cachette du sol I.

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