Object photograph·C03877·1927–1931

Back of idol No. 27 from Petra tou Limniti (PtL 027)

Back of a stone idol from Petra tou Limniti, elongated form with incised crossed lines at the rounded top end — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C03877. Public domain (CC0).

Description

An elongated grey stone object photographed upright against a plain pale backdrop. The rounded upper end bears several incised lines crossing in an X pattern, and the body narrows below into a neck before swelling into rounded side bulges and a broad rounded base. The granular surface is pitted with small hollows, and no scale is visible in the frame.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Petra tou Limniti.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Petra Tou Limniti.

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