Field photograph·C00872·1928

Work in progress at the top of the acropolis, Idalion

Workers excavating walls on the acropolis at Idalion, with a wide plain and town below. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00872. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Workers dig across a dry hilltop where low stone and mud-brick walls stand in open cuttings. A figure in a white garment bends over a basket beside a wheelbarrow, while others kneel, stand or carry baskets among the trenches. Beyond the site, a town spreads across a flat plain toward distant hills under a hazy sky.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: Workers dig and carry baskets among low exposed walls and cut trenches on the flat, stony top of the Idalion acropolis. A wheelbarrow stands near a trench edge at right, and several figures in light clothing bend, stand or sit across the dry ground. A town and fields stretch across the plain below, with hills in the distance under a hazy sky.

English, translated from the Swedish record

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

Swedish, as on the record

Folk och Fä 4

Swedish, as on the record

Arbetsbild från akropolens topp, Idalion.