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Photograph·8_PV_2564·1949

Enkomi: Beginning of the excavations (east-west area)

Enkomi: Beginning of the excavations (east-west area)
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1949. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_2564. "Enkomi: Beginning of the excavations (east-west area)". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

A glass negative of 10 × 8.5 cm, made by Claude Schaeffer in 1949 at Enkomi in Cyprus, showing the start of the excavations in the east-west area.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Début des fouilles (chantier est-ouest)

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