Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Field photograph·JL035

Cyprus ethnology, JL.35

Interior of a plastered room with a wooden roof post, a shelf of plates and bottles, and a woven wooden chair.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, JL035. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Interior of a plastered room with a tall wooden roof post in the centre. A shelf along the back wall holds a row of plates, and several bottles stand at its left end. A wooden chair with a woven seat stands on a sandy floor beside a raised clay platform, while round woven discs hang on the wall and cobbles cover the floor in the foreground.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Interior of a village house with plates on a shelf, a row of bottles, hanging woven sieves and a wooden chair
Description, scan 2
The interior of a plain room with a rough plastered wall and a timber roof supported by a central wooden post. A shelf along the back wall holds a row of plates and a line of bottles, and round woven sieves hang on the left wall. A wooden chair with a woven seat stands on a stone-slab floor beside a low stone hearth, and a white cloth hangs from a rail at right.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Cyprus. Ethnology. JL.35. The photograph shows bottles, chairs, plates and handicraft.

Swedish, as on the record

Cypern Etnologi. JL.35.

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