Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Field photograph·C00741·1928

Martin Gjerstad, a boy, standing on sculpture V. 290 at Vouni with Lazaros beside him

Boy standing on top of a carved limestone sculpture at Vouni, with a man in a waistcoat beside it.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00741. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Two people pose on a stone-paved site at Vouni. In the foreground a carved limestone sculpture shows a face with a wide headdress in relief on a block; a boy in a checked shirt, shorts and a sun hat stands on top of the block, and a man in a waistcoat stands at its side. Behind them are low walls, scattered stone blocks and a flat sea horizon.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • A boy stands on a carved limestone sculpture with a face, and a man stands beside it among excavated ruins at Vouni.
Description, scan 2
A boy in a hat, checked shirt and shorts stands on top of a limestone sculpture that has a face carved in relief within a rounded arch. A man in a dark waistcoat and light shirt stands beside it on an excavated area of stone rubble and cut wall blocks. The flat sea and horizon show behind them.

English, translated from the Swedish record

The boy Martin Gjerstad is standing on sculpture no. 290 with Lazaros beside him. The sculpture is made of limestone, Cypro-Greek I Vouni I-II, V. 290. Found at Vouni, Room 46-65.

Swedish, as on the record

Pojken Martin Gjerstad står på skulptur n. 290 med Lazaros bredvid. Skulpturen är gjord i kalksten, Cypro-Greek I Vouni I-II, V. 290. Hittad i Vouni, Room 46-65. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen.

More from Vouni

1,383 items in the archive

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