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Photograph·8_PV_3495·1934

Enkomi: details of the hoard in the "House of the Bronzes"

Enkomi: details of the hoard in the "House of the Bronzes"
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1934. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_3495. "Enkomi: details of the hoard in the "House of the Bronzes"". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

Glass negative (gelatin silver bromide) showing bronzes from the hoard in the House of the Bronzes at Enkomi, dated 1934: a two-handled basin, a hoe or adze, a hemispherical bowl and an inverted bronze table, in situ. The objects are being cleared by the mission's preparator, M. Kakouli.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Détails de la cachette dans la "Maison des Bronzes" Poêle à deux anses, houe ou herminette, coupe hémisphérique et table de bronze renversée in situ (Maison des Bronzes), en cours de dégagement par le préparateur de la mission, M. Kakouli. [{/li}][{/ul}][{/b}]

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