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Photograph·8_PV_3292·1967

Enkomi: Weights and scarab

Enkomi: Weights and scarab
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1967. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_3292. "Enkomi: Weights and scarab". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

Glass-mounted slide, 6 × 6 cm, of a white limestone scarab (inv. 19.040, well 215, trench 4 E), hematite and quartz weights (inv. 19.015, point 1651, trench 5 E; inv. 19.016, tomb 1851; inv. 19.037, point 1841), photographed by Claude Schaeffer in 1967 at Enkomi, Cyprus.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Poids et scarabée Scarabée en calcaire blanc : inv. 19.040 - puits 215 - tranchée 4 E. Poids en pierre (hématite) : inv. 19.015 - pt. 1651 - tranchée 5 E. Poids en quartz : inv. 19.016 - tombe 1851. Poids en hématite : inv. 19.037 - pt. 1841.

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