Field photograph·C00793·1928
Work in progress at Plakes, Lapithos
Description
Excavation at Plakes, Lapithos, with cut rock ledges and stepped cuttings in the foreground. A seated man in a straw hat leans at left, a woman in a light dress and headscarf stands in the centre, and a man in shirt, shorts and hat stands at right. Behind them are a dry-stone wall, a wheelbarrow, buckets and a spoil heap.
Other scan of this record (1)
- Description, scan 2
- Excavation in progress at Plakes, with a man seated on the left, a woman in a long light dress and headscarf standing in the centre, and a man in shorts and a hat standing on the right. Stone walls and cut earth terraces fill the foreground, and a wheelbarrow stands against a dry-stone wall behind. A small dark opening is visible in the ground, and tools and a wooden box lie among the stones.
English, translated from the Swedish record
Work in progress at Plakes, Lapithos.
Swedish, as on the record
Plakes, arbetsbild. Lapithos. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen
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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)