Field photograph·C00901·1928

Excavation at Lapithos, Plakes

Excavation at Plakes, Lapithos, with two people among trench walls and a wooden box. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00901. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A large block of excavated earth fills the foreground, its layered face and flat top showing the cut. Behind it, a seated person in a light shirt and a second person in a cap stand among trench walls and spoil heaps. A wooden box sits on a ledge in the middle distance beside a thin upright rod.

English, translated from the original record

Excavation at Plakes, Lapithos, with people and a box.

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