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Photograph·8_PV_2597·1962

Enkomi: bicephalous Centaur in terracotta (inv. N°40) and juvenile Baal in bronze (1953)

Enkomi: bicephalous Centaur in terracotta (inv. N°40) and juvenile Baal in bronze (1953)
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1962. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_2597. "Enkomi: bicephalous Centaur in terracotta (inv. N°40) and juvenile Baal in bronze (1953)". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

A glass-mounted slide, 6 × 6 cm, showing a bicephalous terracotta centaur (inv. N°40) and a juvenile bronze Baal from Enkomi in Cyprus. Photographed by Claude Schaeffer in 1962, with the bronze Baal dated 1953 in the title.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Centaure bicéphale en terre cuite (inv. N°40) et Baal juvénile en bronze (1953)

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