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Field photograph·C00960

Tomb 501 at Lapithos

Tomb 501 at Lapithos, a rock-cut tomb opening in excavated ground with stones at its back.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00960. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A deep, irregular excavated pit with a rounded, rock-cut chamber opening at its lower centre, its walls showing tool marks and layers of soil. A row of pale and dark stones lies along the upper edge of the opening, and a heap of loose earth and small stones fills the right foreground. A whitewashed or plastered wall with a timber post stands at the upper right.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Excavated tomb 501 at Lapithos, a cut with stones piled along its upper edge and a chamber opening on the left.
Description, scan 2
Looking down into an excavated rock-cut cutting, with a sloping floor and a dark recess opening on the left. A row of rounded stones lies across the upper part of the cut, and loose stones and gravel lie in the spoil in the foreground. A pale, stained wall and a timber post stand at the right edge.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Lapithos, tomb 501.

Swedish, as on the record

Lapitos, grav 501. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)