Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Field photograph·JL031

Chairs

Two wooden chairs with woven seats standing against a stone and plaster wall on a paved ground.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, JL031. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Two wooden chairs with ladder-style backs and woven seats of plaited fibre stand side by side on a flagstone surface. Their uprights and rails have carved lines and rows of small round studs. Behind them a rubble stone wall with patches of plaster rises beside a dark recess and a projecting block at the top.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Two wooden ladder-back chairs with woven seats standing against a plastered stone wall.
Description, scan 2
Two wooden chairs with carved, notched decoration on their uprights and back rails stand side by side on a flagstone floor. Both have woven seats of plaited fibre and rounded stick legs joined by low stretchers. Behind them a whitewashed wall with patches of lost plaster meets a rubble stone wall, and pale bundled poles lean against the wall at left.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Chairs. Cyprus Handicraft. JL 31.

Swedish, as on the record

Stolar

Swedish, as on the record

Cypern Hantverk. JL 31