Field photograph·C00411·1927

Tomb 317 at Lapithos, dromos

Small carved stone head with a card label above it, from Tomb 317 at Lapithos — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00411. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A small grey stone head with a broad face, heavy brow, round eyes, wide mouth and a raised crest-like projection on top, shown against a black background. A white card label hangs above it, tied with wire, and a pin sits in a small pale mount at the bottom edge. The head is upright and its surface looks worn and granular.

Other scans of this record (2)

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Description, scan 2: A stepped, sloping passage cut into pale soil runs from the foreground up to a dark opening at the back. A large, rough, rounded stone sits in the opening, with smaller lumps beside it. Loose soil and gravel cover the ground in the foreground, and no people or finds are visible.
Description, scan 3: A sloping passage cut into pale soil is seen from above, with vertical sides and a floor that drops in terraces toward the viewer. At the far end, a dark opening is partly filled by a large rounded stone. Loose, crumbly soil and small stones cover the surrounding ground in the foreground.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Jewellery etc. Tomb 317, dromos. Lapithos.

Swedish, as on the record

Smycken m.m

Swedish, as on the record

Grav 317, dromos. Lapithos. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen