Field photograph·C02764·1930

Soil profile at Mersinaki

Excavated soil section at Mersinaki showing layered earth beside a dry-stone wall, with a shrub on top. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1930. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C02764. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A large vertical face of excavated soil fills the centre of the picture, with faint horizontal and vertical layers and scattered small stones. To the left, a low wall of rough stones runs into the section, and a bush grows on the top edge of the cut. The foreground is a flat, pale excavated surface with loose soil.

Other scans of this record (2)

Description, scan 2: A tall vertical face of excavated soil fills the centre of the trench, with layers and scattered small stones visible in its surface. On the left, a wall of rough stones stands beside it, and a small bush grows on top of the soil face. The trench floor in the foreground is flat and pale, and loose earth heaps rise at the edges.
Description, scan 3: A tall vertical face of excavated soil rises from a flat, pale floor of trench bottom, showing layers and vertical streaks in the earth. On the left, a wall of irregular stones with mortar-like gaps is set into the bank, and a shrub grows on the upper edge of the cut against a bare sky. The trench sides slope away to the right, with loose stones and earth in the foreground.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Soil profile at Mersinaki.

Swedish, as on the record

Jordprofil. Mersinaki. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen