Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Field photograph·JL174

Oven ?

Courtyard of a building seen through a stone arch, with a wall niche holding a jug and a shallow bowl.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, JL174. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A stone-flagged courtyard is seen through a large arch, with a whitewashed wall and a doorway in the centre. A recessed niche in the wall holds a jug and a shallow bowl on a ledge. A large storage jar stands at the left beside a rough stone wall, and another jar sits at the lower right near the arch.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Stone-paved courtyard under an arch, with a whitewashed wall holding an arched niche that contains a bowl and a jug
Description, scan 2
A stone-paved courtyard is seen through a tall arch. In the centre, a whitewashed wall has a dark doorway and a shallow arched niche on a ledge, where a bowl and a tall jug stand. Crumbling stone and mud walls, a dark doorway on the left and a wooden door on the right frame the scene, and a large vessel sits at the lower right.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Oven ? Cyprus Ethnology. JL.174

Swedish, as on the record

Ugn ?

Swedish, as on the record

Cypern Etnologi. JL.174