Field photograph·C01444·1929

John Lindros with the skulls from Tomb 8 at Ayios Iakovos

This field photograph shows human remains.

John Lindros crouching among human skulls laid out beside an excavated opening at Ayios Iakovos — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01444. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A man in a wide-brimmed hat and light shirt crouches at the edge of a shallow excavated opening, holding an object in his hands. Around him on the dug earth lie about two dozen human skulls in loose rows, with a small open box, a trowel and a cylindrical tin nearby. Behind them a wide flat plain with scattered bushes rises to distant hills.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: John Lindros crouches on a mound of earth in an open plain, holding a small object among several dozen skulls laid out in rows. He wears a light shirt and a wide-brimmed hat. Nearby lie a trowel, a small box, a tin and a flat pale sheet, with low hills and scattered shrubs behind.

English, translated from the Swedish record

John Lindros with the skulls from Tomb 8. Ayios Iakovos.

Swedish, as on the record

John Lindros med skallarna från grav 8. Ajios Jakovos. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen