Field photograph·C01726·1929–30

The cult room at Kition, the big deposit: detail of sculptures, bodies and heads

Carved stone sculptures, heads and body fragments piled together in the big deposit in the cult room at Kition — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929–30. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01726. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A dense heap of carved stone sculptures lies in the ground. A head with a band of ridged curls sits at the centre, another head with a headdress rises at the upper right, and a headless body lies across the foreground. Limb fragments and a cylindrical piece lie among rubble and soil, with rock walls behind.

Other scans of this record (2)

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Description, scan 2: A heap of broken stone sculptures lies in the soil. A large figure's body and limbs stretch diagonally across the lower half, and a head with curled hair and a band across the brow sits above a shoulder in the centre. Another head is partly hidden in the upper left, with large worked blocks and loose fragments filling the background.
Description, scan 3: A dense jumble of broken stone sculpture fragments lies in an excavated deposit. A female head with a band across its curled hair sits at upper centre, and a larger head with wavy hair rises at right beside a broad vertical block. In the centre, a headless torso and arm lie across other fragments, with loose soil and small stones around them.

English, translated from the Swedish record

The cult room, the big deposit. Detail of sculptures, bodies and heads. Kition.

Swedish, as on the record

Kultrummet, stora depån, detalj. Skulpturer, kroppar och huvuden. Kition. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen