Field photograph·C01775·1929–30
Excavation at Kition, Larnaca
Description
Looking down into an excavation trench with earth walls on two sides. In the centre a carved stone slab sits within a rectangular stone frame, with a figure partly visible in low relief. Large rough stone blocks and rubble lie around it, and loose soil covers the trench floor.
Other scan of this record (1)
- Description, scan 2
- A trench seen from above, with earth-cut sides along two edges. At the centre, a rectangular stone slab sits within a raised stone frame, with a faint carved shape on its surface. Large irregular rubble blocks lie around it, and a flat stone slab fills the lower right foreground.
English, translated from the original record
Excavation at Kition, Larnaca, showing objects and stones in the excavation.
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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)