Field photograph·C00719·1928

Mosaic floor detail, test trench 1, Pezoullia, Soli

Detail of a mosaic floor exposed in test trench 1 at Pezoullia, Soli — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00719. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Small pale and grey tesserae of a mosaic floor are exposed in the bottom of a trench. Soil stains and worn patches cover parts of the surface, and the mosaic runs diagonally across the picture. On the right, a steep face of dark earth and rubble forms the side of the trench, and the lower part of the image is darker soil.

Other scan of this record (1)

Full resolution

Description, scan 2: A close view of a mosaic floor made of small square tesserae, mostly pale with some darker stones, laid in a fairly regular grid. The mosaic is cut through by the excavation, with soil and a dark earth band in the foreground and a rough trench wall on the right edge. No people or scale are visible.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Pezoullia, test trench 1, mosaic floor, detail.

Swedish, as on the record

Pezoullia, provschakt 1, mosaikgolv, detalj. Soli. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen