Field photograph·C02756·1930

Cholades at Soli: Room XXXIV with nos 318 and 319 in situ

Carved stone sculpture fragments lying in situ in Room XXXIV at Soli, with a head to the right of a long patterned piece. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1930. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C02756. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Two carved stone sculpture fragments lie on the bare excavated floor in front of a steep, dark cut in the earth. The long piece on the left has raised decoration in rectangular panels and a rounded end, and the head on the right has a worn face and curled hair. Loose soil and small stones surround them, and a few metal rods lie at the top edge of the photograph.

Other scans of this record (2)

Description, scan 2: A large carved stone statue lies on its side in the excavation, its long garment decorated with bands of incised patterns and one arm visible along its body. Beside it lies a carved head with curled hair and a worn face, resting on the dark soil floor. The room is cut into earth and rubble walls, with a few poles or sticks at the top edge of the frame.
Description, scan 3: A carved stone figure fragment lies on its side in the excavated ground, with a patterned, banded surface and a arm-like piece running along it. A separate weathered head lies on the earth floor to the right. Rough earth walls and rubble of the dig surround the pieces, and some wooden poles lie at the top edge of the frame.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Cholades. Room XXXIV with nos 318 and 319 in situ. Soli.

Swedish, as on the record

Cholades. Rum XXXIV med no 318 och 319 in situ. Soli. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen