Field photograph·C02198·1929–31

Trench 1 at Loures, cement floor with column base in situ

Trench 1 at Loures with a cement floor and a column base in situ against a stone wall — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C02198. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A cement floor runs across the foreground of an excavation trench at Loures. A squared stone base holds a rounded stone drum in front of a wall of rubble and earth, and a dark opening leads back into the ground on the left. Bushes grow on the slope above the wall.

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Description, scan 2: A trench at Loures with a rough wall of stones and earth rising behind a flat floor of large slabs. A drum-shaped column base sits on a rectangular stone block in the centre, with the slabs running around it. On the left a dark opening leads back into shadow, and shrubs grow along the top of the wall.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Loures. Trench 1, cement floor with column base in situ. Vouni.

Swedish, as on the record

Loures. Trench 1, cementgolv med kolonnbas in situ. Vouni. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen