Photograph·8_PV_2600·1958
Enkomi: soft limestone mould with sickle-blade impressions (temple "moon" sector)
English, translated from the French record
A glass-mounted slide, 6 × 6 cm, showing a soft limestone mould with impressions of sickle blades from the temple "moon" sector at Enkomi, Cyprus. Photograph by Claude Schaeffer, dated 1958.
The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)
Enkomi : Moule en calcaire tendre avec empreintes de lames de faucille (secteur du temple "lune")
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