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Photograph·8_PV_2599·1958

Enkomi: crescent-shaped plaque (temple "moon" sector)

Enkomi: crescent-shaped plaque (temple "moon" sector)
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1958. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_2599. "Enkomi: crescent-shaped plaque (temple "moon" sector)". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

Glass-mounted slide, 6 × 6 cm, of a crescent-shaped plaque found in the temple "moon" sector at Enkomi, Cyprus. Taken by Claude Schaeffer in 1958.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Plaque en forme de croissant de lune (secteur du temple "lune")

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