Field photograph·C00850·1928

Workers eating breakfast at Idalion

Workers eating breakfast on the edge of an excavation trench at Idalion — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00850. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Nine people sit and kneel along the lip of a deep excavation trench, several of them women in headscarves, with a boy and two men among them. Two woven baskets and a folded cloth lie among them, and a shovel rests at the lower left. Behind them stretches a wide, dry landscape of hills and cultivated plots under a hazy sky.

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Description, scan 2: A group of about nine people, several in headscarves, sit on a mound of earth and rubble beside an excavation trench. Two wicker baskets and a folded cloth lie among the stones, and a spade is visible at the lower left. Behind them a wide hillside of cultivated terraces stretches toward distant mountains.

English, translated from the Swedish record

The workers are eating breakfast. Idalion.

Swedish, as on the record

Arbetarna äter frukost. Idalion. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

Swedish, as on the record

Folk och Fä 4