Field photograph·C01725·1929–30

Cult room with statues in situ

Excavated room at Kition with stone blocks and rubble scattered over an earth floor, walls along two sides — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929–30. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01725. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A shallow excavated room seen from above, with rough stone walls along the left and right edges and a bare earth floor. Scattered blocks and stones lie along the left side, against the wall, and near the foreground. Soil sides rise behind the room.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: Looking down into an excavated room with a packed earth floor, bounded by cut earth faces and stone walls on the left and far right. Loose stones and rubble lie across the floor, with a rounded stone piece at lower left and a squared block near lower centre. Several larger stones cluster against the left wall.

English, translated from the Swedish record

The cult room, statues in situ.

Swedish, as on the record

Kultrummet, statyer in situ.

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