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Photograph·8_PV_3178·1967

Enkomi: Trench 2 West: flooding (under the eyes of the Cypriot site foreman Michelis Marinos)

Enkomi: Trench 2 West: flooding (under the eyes of the Cypriot site foreman Michelis Marinos)
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1967. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_3178. "Enkomi: Trench 2 West: flooding (under the eyes of the Cypriot site foreman Michelis Marinos)". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

Glass-mounted slide, 6 × 6 cm, of flooding in Trench 2 West at Enkomi in Cyprus, taken by Claude Schaeffer in 1967. The Cypriot site foreman Michelis Marinos is shown supervising the work.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Tranchée 2 ouest : inondations (sous les yeux du chef de chantier chypriote Michelis Marinos)

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