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Photograph·8_PV_3388·1967

Enkomi: ivory or bone disc beads with central holes (well unidentified)

Enkomi: ivory or bone disc beads with central holes (well unidentified)
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1967. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_3388. "Enkomi: ivory or bone disc beads with central holes (well unidentified)". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

A glass-mounted slide, 6 × 6 cm, by Claude Schaeffer, dated 1967, showing ivory or bone discs with central perforations from Enkomi, Cyprus. The well in which they were found is unidentified.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Rondelles en ivoire ou en os à trous médians (puits non identifié)

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