Field photograph·C01246·1929

Work in progress at Marion, many people working at the excavation

Many people working in trenches at the Marion excavation, with a white tent on the left under a wide sky — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01246. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Workers dig and carry soil in trenches and between spoil heaps at Marion. In the foreground, women in headscarves and long dresses carry buckets, and a seated man in a cap and waistcoat sits at a trench edge. A white tent stands at left, and trees and a flat plain stretch into the distance on the right.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: Many people work across a dug site of spoil heaps and shallow trenches on open, flat ground. Several women in long dresses and head coverings carry buckets, and a man crouches at the edge of a trench in the centre. A white tent stands at the left, and trees and fields lie in the distance on the right.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Work in progress at Marion. Many people working at the excavation.

Swedish, as on the record

Marion. Arbetsbild. Många som arbetar på utgrävningen. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen.

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").