Object photograph·Csn2961·1927–1931

KVHAA archive, Idalion: piece of a mail shirt

Crusted grey fragment with horizontal ridges, recorded as a piece of a mail shirt from Idalion — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn2961. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A rough, crusted lump of grey-white material fills most of the frame against a plain pale backdrop. Its surface has many horizontal ridges and bands, some rounded, with a pitted, porous texture and broken edges along the sides and bottom. Handwritten notes run along the bottom edge of the mount.

English, translated from the Swedish record

KVHAA archive, Idalion. Piece of a mail shirt t. 1937.

Swedish, as on the record

Kvhaa - arkivet, Idalion. Bit av brynja t. 1937

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