Field photograph·C03093·1930

Hellenistic house at Mersinaki, photographed from the west

Hellenistic house at Mersinaki, seen from the west, with stone walls and excavated earth behind — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1930. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C03093. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Low rubble walls of fitted stones enclose a small excavated room in the foreground, with a dark recess at its right side. Behind the walls a steep bank of excavated soil rises toward a spoil heap and a rocky slope, and the flat sea fills the left of the view under a pale sky.

Other scans of this record (2)

Full resolution

Description, scan 2: Stone wall foundations of a house enclose a sunken room in the centre, with a steep cut face of brown soil rising behind them. A spoil heap of earth and rubble sits along the ridge above, and the sea with a flat horizon fills the left background. No people are visible; the walls are built of rough, roughly coursed stones.
Description, scan 3: Low stone walls of a house are exposed in an excavation, with rubble-built wall lines running across the foreground and middle ground. A high bank of dark excavated earth and spoil rises behind them, and the flat sea fills the left background under a pale sky.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Hellenistic house, photographed from the west. Mersinaki.

Swedish, as on the record

Hellenistiska huset från väster. Mersinaki. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen