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Photograph·8_PV_3364·1967

Enkomi: Ivory comb with engraved decoration (inv. 19.097 - well 215)

Enkomi: Ivory comb with engraved decoration (inv. 19.097 - well 215)
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1967. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_3364. "Enkomi: Ivory comb with engraved decoration (inv. 19.097 - well 215)". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

Glass-mounted slide, 6 × 6 cm, of an ivory comb with engraved decoration from Enkomi, Cyprus, photographed by Claude Schaeffer in 1967. The comb was found in well 215 and bears inventory number 19.097.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Peigne en ivoire à décor gravé (inv. 19.097 - puits 215)

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