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Photograph·8_PV_2578·1949

Enkomi: Graffiti Block in situ (12th century)

Enkomi: Graffiti Block in situ (12th century)
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1949. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_2578. "Enkomi: Graffiti Block in situ (12th century)". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

Glass negative of the graffiti block at Enkomi, photographed in situ by Claude Schaeffer in 1949. The negative is a gelatin silver print on glass, 10 × 8.5 cm.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Bloc aux graffites in situ (XIIe s.)

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