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Field photograph·C00757·1928

Camels being loaded with pottery crates at Milia

Camels with packsaddles standing on a dirt track beside a mud-brick wall at Milia, with a man holding their ropes.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00757. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Three camels stand close together on a dirt track, with a man in a light shirt and headcloth at the left edge holding their ropes and chains. The camel on the right wears a padded saddle with bundled loads and rope lashings. Behind them a low mud-brick wall has dry straw on top, and a small bell hangs from a chain.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Two camels with saddles and ropes on a dirt track at Milia, one held by a person at the left edge
Description, scan 2
Two camels stand on a dirt track. The nearer one on the right wears a padded saddle with ornamented harness and a neck rope, and the camel on the left has its head and neck filling the left side. A person's arm and torso are visible at the left edge, holding the lead ropes, and behind them are a low earthen wall and a heap of dry straw under a pale sky.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Camels being loaded with pottery crates. Milia.

Swedish, as on the record

Kameler lastas med keramiklådor. Milia. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

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