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Photograph·8_PV_3673·1933

Vounous: Votive dagger with terracotta sheath

Vounous: Votive dagger with terracotta sheath
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1933. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_3673. "Vounous: Votive dagger with terracotta sheath". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

Glass negative (13 × 18 cm, gelatin silver bromide) by Claude Schaeffer, dated 1933, showing a votive dagger with a terracotta sheath from Vounous, Cyprus.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Vounous : Poignard votif avec gaine en terre cuite

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