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Photograph·8_PV_1836·1959

Enkomi: female head in ivory weighted with lead

Enkomi: female head in ivory weighted with lead
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1959. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_1836. "Enkomi: female head in ivory weighted with lead". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

Glass-mounted slide, 6 × 6 cm, showing a female head in ivory weighted with lead from Enkomi, Cyprus. Dated 1959 and attributed to Claude Schaeffer.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Enkomi : Tête féminine en ivoire lesté de plomb

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