Series·Swedish Cyprus Expedition

Lapithos: fieldwork, Plakes and other finds

253 field photographs, 69 object photographs · 1927–28

Sites: Lapithos, Lapithos-Vrysi tou Barba, Lapithos-Kastros, Lapithos-Plakes, Lapithos-Kylistra, Karavas

This series holds 253 field photographs and 69 object photographs from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition's work at Lapithos in 1927 and 1928, under Erik Sjöqvist. The largest groups are the museum's folders "Lapithos Topography etc" (44 prints) and "Lapithos Plakes" (27), with views of the coast at Lambousa, the village and the workmen.

Most of the field photographs show tombs open during excavation, with skeletons, stones blocking the doorways and finds in place: Vrysi tou Barba tombs 301–323, dug in the autumn of 1927, among them Tomb 302 and Tomb 313; the Kastros tombs 401–429 of 1927–1928, notably Tomb 422; and the two Kylistra tombs, 701 and 702. At Plakes the expedition dug the settlement at Alonia ton Plakon, which SCE I published as Neolithic, from 20 October to 8 November 1928, and three tombs cut into the rock beneath it, 601 to 603, from 5 to 12 November. SCE I dated those tombs to Cypro-Geometric I and II. The object photographs are mainly pottery from Tomb 602.

Sjöqvist's diaries for the three digs are D II:1a, D II:1b and D II:1d. The finds themselves are in the Vrysi tou Barba and Kastros series. See also Lapithos.

Sources

Gjerstad, E., Lindros, J., Sjöqvist, E. and Westholm, A. 1934. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927–1931, vol. I. Stockholm, pp. 13–33, 162–171 and 265–276.