Field photograph·C01728·1929–30

Cult room, large deposit at Kition, detail with larger sculptures

Larger sculptures lying together in the cult room deposit at Kition, with fallen blocks and earth around them
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929–30. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01728. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Several larger sculptures lie tangled together in a pit among fallen blocks and earth, against a rough earth-and-rock wall. The standing figures nearest the camera have rounded faces and long garments, and one wears a cylindrical headdress. Small blank white labels lie on the ground at left beside the rubble.

Other scans of this record (2)

  • Excavated deposit at Kition with several larger stone sculptures of figures packed among broken blocks
  • Large stone sculptures packed together in the cult room deposit at Kition, partly excavated
Description, scan 2
Several larger stone sculptures of standing figures, some with headdresses and some broken, are packed together in a narrow excavated trench against a rock-cut wall. Loose blocks and rubble lie around them, and small white cards sit on the ground at lower left. The figure at lower right stands with an arm bent across its body, while others lean or lie broken among the fragments.
Description, scan 3
A narrow excavation trench with pale earth walls on both sides holds a crowd of carved stone sculptures, mostly standing figures in long garments with headdresses, some heads and fragments among them. In the foreground two larger figures stand close together, one wearing a rounded cap, while fallen blocks and rubble lie on the trench floor. The figures are still set among the soil where they were found.

English, translated from the Swedish record

The cult room, large deposit, detail. Several larger sculptures are visible and are probably some of the Herakles-Melqart sculptures found here in Kition, for example K. 19+145+378. The sculpture in the middle may be just one of them, namely sculpture K. 236. Kition.

Swedish, as on the record

Kultrummet, stora depån, detalj. Måna större skulpturer är synliga och är antagligen några av de Herakles-Melqart skulpturerna som hittats här i Kition, exempelvis K. 19+145+378. Skulpturen i mitten kan vara just en av dem, nämligen skulptur K. 236. Kition. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)