Field photograph·C06271·1927–28

Measuring a harem roof at Lapithos

Man holding a tall measuring staff on the flat roof of a stone building at Lapithos — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–28. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C06271. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A man in a jacket stands on the flat concrete-capped roof of a rubble-stone building, holding a tall graduated measuring staff upright in front of him. A wooden ladder leans against the wall at the left, and a wooden-framed grille sits in the lower wall. Behind, scrubby fields and low hills stretch toward a pale horizon.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: A man in a jacket stands on the flat stone roof of a rough stone-walled building, holding a long graduated measuring rod upright beside him. A small barred vent sits in the wall below, and a wooden ladder leans against the side on the left. Behind them the ground falls away to flat fields, scattered trees and a distant strip of sea under an overcast sky.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Measuring the harem roof. Lapithos.

Swedish, as on the record

Mätning på haremstak. Lapithos. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen