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Field photograph·C03211·1927–31

Kristos Giorgiou hacking Ibrahim's field at Soli

Three men digging with hoes and tools in a field at Soli, with a shallow trench and stones beside them.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C03211. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Three men work at the edge of a shallow excavated trench in open, dry ground. The man at left, in a light shirt and cap, bends over to strike the ground with a hoe; a seated man in a hat sits at the trench edge at right, and a man in dark clothes crouches among rounded stones in the foreground. Low scrubby vegetation and a flat horizon fill the background, and a small white stake stands beside the trench.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Three men digging in a shallow excavation at Soli, with rounded stones and a wooden stake beside them.
Description, scan 2
Three men work in a shallow excavation on flat, dry ground. The man on the left bends forward with a hoe-like tool, another in a light shirt and hat sits at the edge of the cut, and a third in a dark cap crouches among rounded stones. A thin wooden stake stands upright beside the stones, and the soil face rises behind them under a pale sky.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Kristos Giorgiou hacks Ibrahim's field at Soli. "Prison-Kristos" was a former looter who became one of the expedition's most skilled excavators.

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").

Swedish, as on the record

Kristos Giorgiou hackar Ibrahims åker vid Soli. "Fängelse-Kristos" var en före detta plundrare som blev en av expeditionens allra skickligaste utgrävare.

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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)