Field photograph·C02090b·1929

Tomb 53 at Marion, excavation with people and stones

Workers haul a wooden box out of a narrow excavation trench on ropes, with two onlookers standing at the edge
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C02090b. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Workers in work clothes lean over a narrow cut in the ground and pull a wooden box up on ropes. One worker wears a white hat and another a white headscarf, and a man in a straw hat and a woman in a long striped dress and headscarf stand watching on the raised ground at right.

English, translated from the original record

Tomb 53 at Marion: people and stones, during excavation.

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