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Enkomi: Graffiti of the Cypriot Iron Age I or Age of the Sea Peoples

Enkomi: Graffiti of the Cypriot Iron Age I or Age of the Sea Peoples
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_2823. "Enkomi: Graffiti of the Cypriot Iron Age I or Age of the Sea Peoples". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

A glass-mounted slide (6 × 6 cm) of a graffito from Enkomi, Cyprus, dating to the Cypriot Iron Age I, also called the Age of the Sea Peoples. It is a photograph by Claude Schaeffer.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Graffiti du Chypriote Fer I ou Epoque des Peuples de la Mer

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