Field photograph·C00869·1928

Work in progress at F7, Idalion

Workers excavating stone and mud-brick walls at F7, Idalion, with a wheelbarrow and spades — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00869. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Field photograph of an excavation in progress, with cut stone walls in the foreground and mud-brick walls behind. About twenty workers, many in hats and headscarves, dig, sit and carry earth, while a wheelbarrow and spades stand on the upper level. A dry, hilly landscape with cultivated fields stretches to the horizon.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: Workers dig among exposed stone walls and mudbrick remains at F7, Idalion. Several men stand on a higher wall beside a wheelbarrow of soil, while others kneel, sit and bend in the trenches below. A spade lies in the foreground and a dry, hilly landscape stretches behind.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Work in progress at F7, Idalion.

Swedish, as on the record

Folk och Fä 4

Swedish, as on the record

Arbetsbild från F7, Idalion.