Field photograph·C01701·1929

Erik Sjöqvist in the dromos to Tomb 8 at Ayios Iakovos

This field photograph shows human remains.

Erik Sjöqvist holding a skull in the dromos leading to Tomb 8 at Ayios Iakovos — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01701. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A man in a light shirt and trousers crouches in a narrow passage cut between tall earth walls, holding a skull in both hands. Beside him a straw hat rests on the ground, and a dark arched opening, the entrance to the tomb chamber, lies behind him. Loose soil and stones cover the floor of the passage.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: Erik Sjöqvist sits in the sloping dromos leading to the arched entrance of Tomb 8 at Ayios Iakovos, holding a skull in both hands. He wears a light shirt and shorts, and a straw hat lies on the ground beside him. The passage walls are of cut, pitted earth or rock, and the dark tomb opening is visible behind him.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Erik Sjöqvist in the dromos to Tomb 8, Ayios Iakovos.

Swedish, as on the record

Erik Sjöqvist i dromos till grav 8. Ajios Jakovos. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen