Field photograph·C00643·1928

Four people at the excavation at Vouni

Workers bending over an excavation trench at Vouni, with a rail track along the edge. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00643. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Several people bend over a trench cut into pale, dry ground at Vouni, while others stand at its edge. A woman in a large hat leans into the cut in the centre, and a man in a cap on the right stands beside a rail track. Stone walls and spoil heaps surround the excavation.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: Several people bend over a cut trench at the Vouni excavation, one in a long dark coat and another in a white apron and wide-brimmed hat. A woman in a headscarf stands behind them, and a man in a cap and light shirt stands at the right edge. Rails run across the trench and stone walls and loose rubble line the cut, with a bare, pale sky above.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Four people at the excavation at Vouni. The person in the middle wears a large hat. The man on the right is smoking a cigarette. Rails.

Swedish, as on the record

Fyra personer vid utgrävningen i Vouni. Personen i mitten har en stor hatt. Mannen till höger röker en cigarett. Räls.