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Field photograph·C00866·1928

Work in progress at the top of the acropolis, Idalion

Work in progress at the top of the acropolis, Idalion: workers digging among low walls on a hilltop above a valley.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00866. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A wide view over an excavation on a hilltop, with many workers digging, kneeling and carrying among low walls of stone and mudbrick. Baskets, a wheelbarrow and a tall pole stand on the excavated ground, and heaps of earth lie along the edges. Beyond, a town and cultivated fields lie in a flat valley below distant mountains under a pale sky.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Work in progress at the top of the acropolis at Idalion, with workers digging among low walls.
Description, scan 2
A wide view across an excavation on a hilltop, with about sixteen people digging, kneeling and standing among low walls and cut earth. Baskets sit on the ground near a woman in light clothing, and a wheelbarrow stands at the right. Beyond the site a flat plain stretches to a town and distant mountains under a hazy sky.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Work in progress at the top of the acropolis, Idalion.

Swedish, as on the record

Arbetsbild från akropolens topp. Idalion. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

Swedish, as on the record

Folk och Fä 4

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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)