Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Field photograph·JL261

Oven ?, Cyprus ethnology (JL.261)

Rough stone structure with a whitewashed flat top beside a dirt track, with a rubble stone wall in the foreground
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, JL261. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A low structure of rough stone blocks with a whitewashed flat top and a small opening in its side stands beside a dirt track. A second whitewashed block rises behind it, with a dark hole in its top and loose slabs and stones on the roof. In the foreground a wall of rounded rubble stones runs across the grass, and a tiled-roof building appears at the right.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Stone building with a whitewashed flat roof and a rounded whitewashed structure on top, beside a rubble wall and dirt track.
Description, scan 2
A rubble-stone building with a flat, whitewashed roof stands at the left, with a small window opening and a low whitewashed block on its roof. A rounded whitewashed hump and several small pots or chimneys sit on the roof, and a longer stone wall runs to the right along a dirt track. A tiled-roof building and trees appear behind, with a loose stone wall in the foreground.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Oven ? Cyprus, ethnology. JL.261.

Swedish, as on the record

Ugn ?

Swedish, as on the record

Cypern Etnologi. JL.261.