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Field photograph·C00998

Objects on shelves and planks, Nicosia

Storeroom with pottery vessels on wooden shelves and planks, Nicosia
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00998. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A narrow storeroom aisle is lined on both sides with wooden shelving and planks holding many pottery vessels. Large handled jars, jugs and juglets sit on the lower shelves, and some vessels have paper tags attached. The wooden floor runs between the racks towards a far wall.

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  • Storeroom shelves in Nicosia holding many pottery vessels, jugs and jars on wooden racks.
Description, scan 2
A narrow storeroom aisle runs between tall wooden shelving units filled with large pottery vessels, including jugs with handles, jars and bulbous forms, many with paper tags attached. The shelves are plain timber planks and boards, and the floor is bare wood. No people are shown.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Objects on shelves and planks, in Nicosia.

Swedish, as on the record

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