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Photograph·8_PV_2818·1949

Enkomi: Base Ring vases (inv. 5.005 and 5003 – tomb 5)

Enkomi: Base Ring vases (inv. 5.005 and 5003 – tomb 5)
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1949. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_2818. "Enkomi: Base Ring vases (inv. 5.005 and 5003 – tomb 5)". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

A glass-mounted slide, 6 × 6 cm, showing three vases, one of them unidentified, from tomb 5 at Enkomi in Cyprus. The photograph is dated 1949 and is attributed to Claude Schaeffer.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Vases en base-ring (inv. 5.005 et 5003 - tombe 5) Trois vases dont un non identifié.

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