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Photograph·8_PV_3482·1949

Enkomi: clay sling bullets

Enkomi: clay sling bullets
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1949. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_3482. "Enkomi: clay sling bullets". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

A glass negative of clay sling bullets from Enkomi, Cyprus, photographed by Claude Schaeffer in 1949. The negative is a gelatin silver bromide plate measuring 10 cm × 8.5 cm.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Balles de fronde en terre cuite

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