Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Field photograph·C04374

Stone construction with a fossil

Fossil impression in a stone slab, showing a body with radiating thin dark rays against a black background.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C04374. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A large fossil impression fills a grey stone slab, with a dark background at upper right. Thin dark rays fan out from a central body, most clearly along the lower left and the right edge, and the rock surface around them is rough and pitted. No built stone construction is visible, only the rock with the fossil.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Close view of a grainy rock with dark, feather-like fossil impressions fanning across its surface
Description, scan 2
A close view of a rough, grainy stone surface set against a dark background. Several long, thin, dark impressions curve and branch across the rock, fanning out in a feather-like pattern in the centre and at the right. The stone is pitted and uneven, and its top edge rises to a rounded peak at upper left.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Stone construction with a fossil.

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").