Field photograph·C02353·1929

Work in progress at Petra tou Limniti

Workers and a woman in headscarf at an excavation on a rocky shoreline at Petra tou Limniti, with a cord stretched across the dig. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C02353. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Eight people stand and kneel on a cleared earth surface among rocks at the edge of calm water. One man in a hat bends over the ground at left, and a long wooden rod and a tool lie on the soil in the foreground. A taut cord runs across the scene, and a man in a waistcoat stands at the right edge looking toward the camera.

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Description, scan 2: Eight people work on a dug area at the water's edge at Petra tou Limniti. A man in a straw hat holds a tool at left, a pick lies on the ground, and a white bucket sits on the rocks. A woman in a headscarf kneels at right, and a man in a light hat and waistcoat stands at far right beside a taut cord.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Work in progress at Petra tou Limniti.

Swedish, as on the record

Arbetsbild. Petra Tou Limniti Svenska Cypernexpeditionen