Field photograph·C00870·1928

Idalion Acropolis

Excavation at the Acropolis of Idalion, with a young boy standing on the spoil beside the trenches — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00870. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Trenches cut into pale earth expose low walls of rough stone blocks and packed earth. A barefoot boy in a white shirt and dark trousers stands on the spoil heap at right, with a basket on a bank behind him. A small dark object lies in a pit at centre right, and low hills with scattered trees rise under a pale sky.

English, translated from the original record

Excavation at the Acropolis of Idalion, with people and objects visible.

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