Field photograph·C00799·1928

Excavation at Lapithos, Plakes: box and stones

Excavation at Plakes, Lapithos, with a small cardboard box and a stake at the upper left of a cut in the soil. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00799. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A dug-out area of pale earth with a rounded hollow cut into the ground in the centre-right. Behind it a vertical face of soil shows layers and scattered small stones. At the upper left, a cardboard box and a thin wooden stake stand on the edge of the lower ground, and a light object is partly visible at the top edge.

English, translated from the original record

Photograph from the excavation at Plakes, Lapithos, showing a box and stones.

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