Field photograph·C00445·1928

Excavation at Plakes, Lapithos, with stones

Excavation trench at Plakes, Lapithos, with large limestone blocks and stones exposed in the soil — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00445. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A trench cut into brown soil with a vertical face on the left and a sloping back wall. Many pale, rounded limestone blocks and smaller stones lie in clusters and rows in the trench, some partly embedded in the earth. Loose soil and grass fill the upper edge of the frame.

English, translated from the original record

Excavation at Plakes, Lapithos, with stones visible.

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