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Field photograph·C01590·1928

Packing in the mukhtar's courtyard at Milia

Packing pottery in a courtyard at Milia, with a man and a woman beside a mud-brick building
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01590. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A courtyard with a mud-brick building behind it, a doorway, and a wooden ladder leaning against the wall at right. A man in a jacket and pale trousers stands in the doorway, and a woman in a dark dress holds a bundle of cloth near wooden crates. On the ground in front are several jugs, bowls and scattered sherds, with a wooden fence at left.

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Description, scan 2
A courtyard in front of a thick mud-brick building with a doorway. A man in a dark jacket and light trousers stands by the doorway, and a woman in a dark dress carries a bundle on her head. On the ground in front of them lie a group of pottery vessels, including large jugs and bowls, with wooden crates and a ladder against the wall nearby.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Packing in the mukhtar's courtyard. Milia.

Swedish, as on the record

Packning på muktarens gård. Milia. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

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