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Photograph·8_PV_2587·1949

Enkomi: Painted Mycenaean krater and hydria (tomb 2)

Enkomi: Painted Mycenaean krater and hydria (tomb 2)
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1949. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_2587. "Enkomi: Painted Mycenaean krater and hydria (tomb 2)". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

Glass-mounted slide, 6 × 6 cm, of painted Mycenaean krater and hydria from tomb 2 at Enkomi, Cyprus, photographed by Claude Schaeffer in 1949. The hydria is described as Late Cypriot II (1450–1350).

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Cratère et hydrie mycéniens peints (tombe 2) Hydrie du Chypriote Récent II (1450-1350).

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