Photograph·8_PV_3500·1934

Enkomi: Clay and stone vessels (tombs 5 and 13)

Enkomi: Clay and stone vessels (tombs 5 and 13)
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1934. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_3500. "Enkomi: Clay and stone vessels (tombs 5 and 13)". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

Glass negative photograph by Claude Schaeffer, dated 1934, showing vessels from Enkomi in Cyprus. The numbered items include a painted jug or gargoulette and a jug imitating a metal vessel from tomb 13, a carved greenish steatite vessel and a bird-shaped vessel from tomb 6.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Vases en terre cuite et en pierre (tombes 5 et 13) 1 - Cruche ou gargoulette peinte (tombe 13). 2 - Cruche imitant un vase en métal (tombe 13). 3 - Vase en stéatite verdâtre gravé (tombe 6). 4 - Vase ornithomorphe (tombe 6). 5 - Vase en stéatite verdâtre gravé (tombe 6).

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