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Field photograph·C01419·1929

Ayios Iakovos

This field photograph shows human remains.

Excavated pit at Ayios Iakovos with a broken pottery jar, standing stone slabs and skulls in the soil
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01419. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A pit cut into sandy soil shows a large cracked jar in the lower foreground and upright stone slabs behind it. Two rounded skulls lie among the fragments, one beside a slab at centre and one near the jar at lower centre. Loose stones and small sherds lie on the surface around the cut.

English, translated from the original record

Ayios Iakovos, a site with stones, during excavation.

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