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Photograph·8_PV_3570·1934

Enkomi: Tomb with slab before opening

Enkomi: Tomb with slab before opening
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1934. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_3570. "Enkomi: Tomb with slab before opening". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

A glass negative of 13 cm × 9 cm in gelatin silver bromide, taken by Claude Schaeffer at Enkomi, Cyprus, in 1934. It shows a tomb with its slab in place before it was opened.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Tombe avec dalle avant ouverture

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