Object photograph·C05126i·1927–1931

Alabaster vases from Cyprus (L.422.7)

Alabaster vase from Lapithos, Kastros tombs, shown against a dark background — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C05126i. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A single rounded, pear-shaped object with a narrow top and wider base fills the centre of the frame. Its surface is pale with mottled darker patches and faint vertical ridges, and its edges are soft. It sits on a plain dark grey background with small specks across the print, and a thin pale border surrounds the image.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: Several small finds are laid out on a dark grey ground. At top left is a thin, broken open ring, and below it a small, pale, pear-shaped object. The centre holds a flat circular disc with a raised rim and a chipped edge, and at right a hoop ring has a cluster of four dark round beads hanging from its lower part.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Alabaster vases from Cyprus, Semiprecious Stone, L.422.7.

Swedish, as on the record

Fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Alabastervaser från Cypern, Semiprecious Stone, L.422.7