Field photograph·C01802·1929–30

Ayia Irini: general view with the altar

Excavated figures and statue fragments heaped beside a round stone altar at Ayia Irini — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929–30. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01802. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Photograph taken from above of an excavation, with a large round stone base on the left bearing a number label. Beside it lies a heap of small figures, heads and larger statue fragments, many broken, while cylindrical column drums and other pieces stand along the upper right. Soil banks rise behind the finds.

Other scans of this record (2)

Full resolution

Description, scan 2: A large circular stone altar with a raised rim stands in the foreground of an excavated area. Behind and around it lie many clay figures, some full-size and some smaller, many broken and partly buried in soil, with numbered labels written on several of them. Earth-cut walls of the excavation form the background.
Description, scan 3: A dense heap of excavated pale figures, heads and limbs, several on tall cylindrical bases, lies among earth and stone. A large rounded white block dominates the left foreground, and several number labels are attached to figures and to the block. Dark cut earth and rock walls fill the background.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Copy photograph. Ayia Irini. General view with the altar.

Swedish, as on the record

Repro. Ajia Irini. Helhetsbild med altaret. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen.