Field photograph·C00958·1927–28

Excavation site at Lapithos, Kylistra

Village street at Kylistra, Lapithos, with whitewashed houses, several people and an excavated earth bank at right — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–28. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00958. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A dirt road curves between whitewashed houses with barred and shuttered windows, and bare-branched trees stand at the left edge. On the right, a steep cut bank of earth has a spoil heap in front of it, with a long-handled tool leaning against it and a bucket nearby. Seven people sit, stand or crouch on the road, including a man on a low wall beside a wooden chair and two children on the ground, with terraced slopes rising behind.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: A dirt lane runs uphill past a rendered stone house with shuttered windows on the left. Seven people are dotted along the road: a man sits by the wall, a woman with a pale jug stands in the middle, two figures sit on the ground, and three men stand near a cut earth bank on the right. Terraced hillsides and a ridge rise behind, with trees and a low stone wall on the right.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Lapithos, the excavation site. Kylistra.

Swedish, as on the record

Lapitos, grävningsplatsen. Kylistra. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen