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Photograph·8_PV_3481·1948

Enkomi: transcriptions of inscribed balls and bone styli

Enkomi: transcriptions of inscribed balls and bone styli
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1948. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_3481. "Enkomi: transcriptions of inscribed balls and bone styli". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

A glass negative of 10 cm × 8.5 cm, made by Claude Schaeffer at Enkomi in Cyprus in 1948, showing transcriptions of inscribed balls and bone styli.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Transcriptions de boules inscrites et stylets en os

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