Field photograph·C04919·1929–30

Tomb interior: Panagia Faneromeni, Kition, Larnaca

Vaulted interior at Panagia Faneromeni, Kition, with a cloth-draped structure in the doorway and a lit candle stand. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929–30. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C04919. Public domain (CC0).

Description

The photograph looks along a barrel-vaulted chamber with rough, plastered walls toward a doorway. Inside the doorway a cloth-draped structure stands on a low base, and a framed sign with Greek lettering is fixed to the wall above it. A tall stand holding several lit candles stands to the right of the doorway.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: A vaulted chamber with rough, weathered walls and a low arched ceiling, seen from inside. Through a doorway in the back wall a further space is visible, with a table draped in white cloth and a dark object on top. To the right stands a metal candle stand holding several lit candles, and a framed sign with Greek lettering hangs above the doorway.

English, translated from the Swedish record

The tomb, interior. Panagia Faneromeni. Greek Orthodox church in Kition, Larnaca.

Swedish, as on the record

Graven interiör. Panagia Faneromeni. Grekisk-ortodox kyrka i Kition, Larnaca. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen