Field photograph·C01704·1929

Erik Sjöqvist cleaning a skeleton at Ayios Iakovos

This field photograph shows human remains.

Three men kneeling beside a skeleton at Ayios Iakovos, cleaning the bones — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01704. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Three men kneel together in an excavated hollow with pale earth walls, cleaning a group of skeletons on the floor. Several skulls and long bones are visible among the soil. A broom, a hand tool and loose sheets of paper lie on the ground nearby, and the man on the right holds a tool over the bones.

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Description, scan 2: Three men kneel and sit around a group of exposed skeletons in a pit against a rough rock face. Several skulls and long bones lie in the soil, and one man works over the remains with a tool. A brush, a small container, and loose papers lie on the ground at left, with a broad rock outcrop filling the background.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Erik Sjöqvist. Cleaning of a skeleton. Ayios Iakovos.

Swedish, as on the record

Erik Sjöqvist. Rensning av skelett. Ajios Jakovos. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen