Field photograph·C01741·1929–30

The cult room, soil section through the middle, from west

Soil section through the cult room at Kition, seen from the west, with a large rounded earth mass and a stone step. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929–30. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01741. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A large face of compacted earth, full of small stones and pebbles and pitted with holes and dark hollows, fills most of the frame. At the lower right a flat stone step or ledge sits beside a shallow recess, and a pale earth wall rises at the left edge above the floor.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: A rounded mass of pale, compacted earth or stone fills most of the frame, its surface pitted and marked with vertical scrape lines. Dark openings appear behind it on the left and right, and a flat stone step or ledge runs along the lower right. Pale rock rises at the upper left, and a level floor surface extends across the foreground.

English, translated from the Swedish record

The cult room, soil section through the middle, from the west.

Swedish, as on the record

Kultrummet, jordprofil genom mitten från väst.