Photograph·8_PV_3501·1934

Enkomi: Vases from Tomb 12

Enkomi: Vases from Tomb 12
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1934. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_3501. "Enkomi: Vases from Tomb 12". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

Glass negative, gelatin silver process, of vessels from tomb 12 at Enkomi, photographed by Claude Schaeffer in 1934. The numbered vessels include a painted Mycenaean hydria, a Mycenaean painted plate or dish, a Mycenaean painted vase with a stirrup handle, a large vessel of greenish clay with signs painted in brown, and a Mycenaean krater decorated with gazelles.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Vases de la tombe 12 1 - Hydrie mycénienne peinte. 2 - Assiette ou plat mycénien peint. 3 - Vase mycénien peint avec anse à étrier. 4 - Grand vase en terre verdâtre avec signes d'écritures peints en brun. 5 - Cratère mycénien à décor de gazelles.

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