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Photograph·8_PV_3672·1933

Vounous: ovoid pyxis with incised decoration

Vounous: ovoid pyxis with incised decoration
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, 1933. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_3672. "Vounous: ovoid pyxis with incised decoration". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

Glass negative (gelatin silver, 13 × 18 cm) by Claude Schaeffer, dated 1933, showing an ovoid pyxis with incised decoration from Vounous, Cyprus.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Vounous : Pyxide ovoïde à décor gravé

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