Field photograph·C04140·1930–31

Room XLIII A at Cholades, offering pit at altar 154

Excavated room at Cholades with a rectangular offering pit beside low stone walls — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1930–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C04140. Public domain (CC0).

Description

An excavated area seen from above, with low stone walls and rubble courses running across the frame. In the centre is a rectangular hollow with a dark earth floor and a stone-faced edge, set among exposed foundations and packed bare earth. Loose stones lie along the edges, and a higher line of stone walling runs across the upper part of the picture.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: Low rubble stone walls and scattered stones run across a dry, earthen excavation floor at Cholades. In the centre, a long rectangular stone-edged feature with a sunken, soil-filled top stands among the foundations. A dark earth section and more rubble fill the background.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Cholades. Room XLIII A, offering pit at altar 154. Soli.

Swedish, as on the record

Cholades. Rum XLIII A, offergropen vid altare 154. Soli. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen