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Photograph·8_PV_2562·1949

Enkomi: Building 18: beginning of the clearance

Enkomi: Building 18: beginning of the clearance
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1949. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_2562. "Enkomi: Building 18: beginning of the clearance". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

Glass negative (gelatin silver bromide, 10 × 8.5 cm) by Claude Schaeffer, dated 1949, showing the start of the clearing of Building 18 at Enkomi, Cyprus.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Bâtiment 18 : début du dégagement

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