Field photograph·C01813·1929–30

Work in progress at Ayia Irini

Workers in a trench at Ayia Irini, with wheelbarrows, buckets and a sieve on the excavation ground — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929–30. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01813. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A large group of workers, many in white head coverings and light robes, digs in a shallow trench with stone blocks and bare earth exposed. A man in a long dark coat stands at left, and a person kneels in a striped top at the front of the trench. Wheelbarrows, metal buckets, wooden boxes and a sieve lie on the ground, and a line of trees and open fields stretches across the background.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: A group of about fifteen workers, several in white headcloths and long robes, stand, kneel and dig among low excavated cuttings and heaps of earth on open ground. Two wheelbarrows, baskets, stacked wooden boxes and a sieve frame lie near the trenches. A row of trees and a low hill form the background under a pale sky.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Work in progress at Ayia Irini.

Swedish, as on the record

Arbetsbild. Ajia Irini. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen