Object photograph·C05419b·1927–1931

Silver ring from Marion Tomb 26 (M. 26. 10)

Silver ring from Marion Tomb 26, shown in close view with dark tarnish and pale highlights
Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C05419b. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Close-up photograph, mounted on a cream card, of a silver ring that fills most of the frame. The band is dark and tarnished, with pale grey-white patches, a lighter oval panel on one side and bluish highlights along the lower edge. The photograph's edges and the card border show around it.

Other scans of this record (4)

  • Four corroded silver rings on a grey background, photographed from different angles.
  • Silver ring from Marion Tomb 26, corroded, with a second band curving behind it, shown on a pale mounted card
  • Silver ring from Marion Tomb 26, heavily corroded, shown in a photograph on a card mount
  • Silver ring from Marion Tomb 26, corroded, shown in a mounted photograph
Description, scan 2
Four small rings, each a thick band that coils and overlaps itself, lie on a plain grey background and are shown from different angles. Their surfaces are pale with dark patches of corrosion, and the hollow centres reveal the backdrop. The objects are placed in a square arrangement, one in each corner of the sheet.
Description, scan 3
A corroded metal ring lies at an angle, its surface mottled with dark and pale patches, with a second thinner band curving behind it at the upper left. The ring is shown on a pale grey card mount, with a soft shadow beneath it and part of a handwritten label visible at the bottom edge.
Description, scan 4
A photograph of a ring seen straight on, with a dark, pitted and heavily corroded band around a pale, hollow centre. The ring is set on a pale card with a cut corner, and a faint blue smear shows below it. A thin lighter edge runs along the inner circle of the ring.
Description, scan 5
A thick ring of corroded metal is seen at an angle from above, with a pale rounded inner surface and dark, mottled patches of tarnish. A second curved piece of similar corroded metal lies partly behind it at the lower right. The print is mounted on a pale card with a narrow border, against a plain light background.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Silver. M. 26. 10.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Silver. M. 26. 10

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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)