Field photograph·C01705·1929

Erik Sjöqvist packing skulls at Ayios Iakovos

This field photograph shows human remains.

Two men work among skulls on a raised mound at Ayios Iakovos, with two women in long dresses standing behind them — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01705. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Two men work among skulls on a raised mound in a dry field. The man on the left wears a wide-brimmed hat and holds a skull, while the man on the right, in a cap, bends over another. Nearby lie a shovel, a tin cup and a box, and two people in long dresses and headscarves stand behind them with hills beyond.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: Two men work on a raised patch of excavated ground at Ayios Iakovos: one sits in a wide-brimmed hat, the other kneels beside a shovel. Several skulls and other bones lie on the soil in front of them, with a box and a cloth nearby. Two figures in long dresses and headscarves stand at the left edge, with a flat field and bare hills behind.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Erik Sjöqvist packs skulls. Ayios Iakovos.

Swedish, as on the record

Erik Sjöqvist packar kranier. Ajios Jakovos. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen