Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Field photograph·C00778·1928

Work in progress at Oura

Workers digging an excavation at Oura, with wheelbarrows, shovels and exposed stone walls.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00778. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Men, women and boys in light, striped clothing dig in an excavated trench at Oura, several with headscarves or turbans. Wheelbarrows and shovels stand among spoil heaps, and a seated man rests on an exposed stone wall in the foreground. Behind them the ground rises to a hillside covered in low scrub.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Workers digging at Oura, with wheelbarrows and shovels among stone walls in an excavation trench.
Description, scan 2
Workers dig in an excavation cut into a hillside, with stone walls and rock showing in the trench. Men and women in light clothing and headscarves carry earth and push wheelbarrows, and long-handled shovels stand among the spoil heaps. A seated man in a cap rests on a block in the foreground, and dry scrub covers the slope behind.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Work in progress at Oura.

Swedish, as on the record

Arbetsbild. Oura. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen