Object photograph·C04321a·1927–1931

Faience (A. 002:028:026:025)

Faience fragment from Amathus: oval object with overlapping raised lobes and a vertical crack — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C04321a. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A photograph of an oval, domed object on a white card mount. A vertical crack runs down the centre; the right half has overlapping rounded lobes in relief, while the left half is dark with faint bluish lines across its surface. The object fills most of the frame against a plain light background.

Other scans of this record (3)

Description, scan 2: A single angular fragment with one straight, broken upper edge and irregular broken sides, shown in grey tones on a white card with a cream border. Its mottled surface has a pale line running diagonally across the lower left and a few pale patches on the right.
Description, scan 3: A photograph mounted on a light card shows three objects, each beside a dark number label. The largest is a rounded, cracked object whose surface is covered with overlapping, scale-like curved impressions. At lower left is a thin flat fragment with a curved edge, and at lower right a crescent-shaped object with a rough, pitted surface.
Description, scan 4: A close photograph of a single curved, crescent-shaped object with a rounded body and tapering ends, shown on a pale background and mounted on a card. Its surface is pitted and mottled, lighter on the left and darker toward the right edge, with a small mark near the centre.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Faience, A.2.28:26:25, from Amathus (T. 2-26).

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Amathus T. 2-26.