Field photograph·C00802·1928

Plakes, E.C. house, cross-section at Lapithos

Cross-section of the Plakes E.C. house excavation at Lapithos, with three people at the trench edge. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00802. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A large vertical face of excavated soil and stones runs across the foreground of a trench at Lapithos. Three people stand at the trench edge: one in a cap behind a wooden box, one in a hat and waistcoat beside him, and one in a light shirt leaning on the rim at the right. Loose pale stones and heaps of earth lie in the trench around them.

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Description, scan 2: A deep trench is cut through layered brown soil, with a tall vertical section of earth and stones filling the foreground. Behind it, a man in a flat cap holds a wooden box at the edge of the trench, while a man in a hat and waistcoat stands with folded arms and a young boy leans on the far edge. Loose stones and spoil lie on the surrounding ground.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Plakes, E.C. house, cross-section.

Swedish, as on the record

Plakes, E.C.-huset, tvärprofilen. Lapithos. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen