Field photograph·C00759·1928

Tomb hill at Vouni

Tomb hill at Vouni seen through overhanging tree branches, with scrub and scattered trees on its slopes.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00759. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A broad hill with a flat top rises behind a bare, stony foreground. Scrub bushes and scattered trees grow on its slopes, and faint horizontal lines run across the lower part of the slope. Branches of a large tree frame the view from the upper left and right, and the sky is pale.

Other scans of this record (2)

  • Flat-topped hill at Vouni seen through overhanging tree branches, with scrub and orchard trees in the foreground.Full resolution
  • Flat-topped hill at Vouni seen through the branches of a tree in the foreground.
Description, scan 2
A broad, flat-topped hill rises across the middle of the view, its slopes dotted with low scrub and small trees. Dark branches and leaves frame the upper left and top of the picture. In the foreground a bare, stony ground is strewn with twigs and small stones, and dense bushes and trees stand along the hill's base.
Description, scan 3
A broad, flat-topped hill rises across the middle of the view, its slopes dotted with scrub and small trees. A large tree with spreading, bare branches frames the top of the picture on the left and right, and the foreground is a pale, stony ground scattered with small rocks and fallen twigs. Low bushes and trees line the foot of the hill, and the sky is pale and empty.

English, translated from the Swedish record

From the tomb hill. Vouni.

Swedish, as on the record

Från gravberget. Vouni. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

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