Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Field photograph·JL061

Ethnology, Cyprus, JL.61

Interior of a plastered room with a timber-beamed ceiling, a striped-covered bed, wall shelves of jugs and a painted chest
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, JL061. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A plastered room with a ceiling of heavy timber beams and brushwood laid across them. A bed with a striped woven cover stands against the back wall, with wooden shelves holding jugs and glasses on either side. A dark painted chest and a wooden chair stand on the right, another chair at left, on a flagged floor, with a wooden post in the centre of the frame.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Interior of a rural room with a timber-beamed ceiling, a table covered by a striped cloth, and a painted chest against the wall.
Description, scan 2
A whitewashed interior with a ceiling of thick timber beams and split branches laid across them. A table draped with a striped woven cloth stands against the back wall, with jugs and small bottles on wall shelves above it. A wooden chair sits at the left and a dark painted chest with a hinged lid is at the right, on a stone-flagged floor; a rough wooden post stands in the foreground.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Cyprus. Ethnology. JL.61

Swedish, as on the record

Cypern Etnologi. JL.61