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Field photograph·C00381·1928

Tomb 12 at Milia, dromos

Dromos leading down to the entrance of Tomb 12 at Milia, cut into pale earth
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00381. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A sloping dromos, cut down into pale soil and rock, leads to the dark entrance of Tomb 12 at Milia. Heaps of loose stones and earth line the edges of the cutting. Beyond, a flat, open landscape stretches to the horizon, with a single tree at the upper left.

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  • Tomb 12 at Milia: a sloping dromos cut into pale soil, leading down to the dark entrance of the tomb chamber.Full resolution
Description, scan 2
A rock-cut dromos descends steeply in the foreground, its pale walls cut into the dug earth, and at its lower end opens the dark doorway of a tomb chamber. Spoil and stones lie heaped along the trench edges, and open flat ground with a lone tree stretches to the horizon behind.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Tomb 12, dromos. Milia.

Swedish, as on the record

Grav 12, dromos. Milia. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)