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Field photograph·C01761·1929–30

Roman water channel at Kition

Roman water channel at Kition, built of stone and covered with flat slabs in an excavation trench.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929–30. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01761. Public domain (CC0).

Description

An excavated trench shows a stone-built channel with a row of cut stone blocks along one side and flat stone slabs laid across the top. The channel runs diagonally from the left into the centre of the image, its interior dark with soil. The trench edges are cut earth, with loose stones and rubble on the ground above.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Roman water channel at Kition, stone-lined, with flat slabs laid over a rubble wall in an excavation trench.
Description, scan 2
A stone-lined channel runs diagonally across the excavation trench, its sides built of rough blocks and rubble. Flat, pale slabs lie across the top of a rubble wall at the centre, partly covering the channel. Dark soil banks rise around the cutting, and a standing slab and loose stones appear at the top of the frame.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Roman water channel.

Swedish, as on the record

Romersk vattenränna.

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