Field photograph·C00522·1928

Temple of Athena at Vouni, breakthrough of the floor in Room I

Broken-through floor in Room I of the Temple of Athena at Vouni, with pale stone slabs and a dark cavity below.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00522. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A broken stone floor in an excavated area, with large pale slabs tilted and cracked around a dark cavity beneath. Loose rubble and soil surround the damaged floor, and a trench runs across the foreground. Bushes and scattered stones lie on the open ground behind, with a thin vertical pole near the top right.

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  • Breakthrough in the stone floor of Room I in the Temple of Athena at Vouni, with a dark hole cut through a large slab.
Description, scan 2
A broken stone floor in an excavated area, with a dark hole cut through a large flat slab and rough rubble edges around it. Loose stones, a few low bushes and a thin upright rod sit on the dry, pale soil of the surrounding ground.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Temple of Athena, breakthrough of the floor in Room I. Vouni.

Swedish, as on the record

Athenatemplet, genombrytningen av golvet i rum I. Vouni Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

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