Series·Swedish Cyprus Expedition

Objects: Bronze Age small finds and stone

271 object photographs

Sites: Arsos, Ayios Sozomenos-Nikolidhes, Alambra

This series holds 271 photographs of Bronze Age tools, weapons and small objects, and of stone, whose museum record gives no find-place. The captions file them as "BA Bronze Tools" (83), "BA Weapons" (34) and "BA small finds", with groups of stone objects, a few pots and bowls, and some stone pieces from Alambra, a site Einar Gjerstad published in 1926, before the expedition began. Fifty-five name the Cyprus Museum.

The series also holds 64 photographs captioned "Arsos VIII–IX", most of them limestone heads and statues, which belong with the sculpture.

The expedition's Late Bronze Age tools and small finds are classified in its volume on the arts and crafts of the period, which is in the Archive. Finds with tomb numbers are in the Enkomi, Ayios Iakovos and Milia series; "No recorded place" under Site in the explorer gathers the unplaced material.

Sources

Åström, L., Åström, P. et al. 1972. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, vol. IV, part 1D: The Late Cypriote Bronze Age. Other Arts and Crafts. Lund, pp. 473–557.
Karageorghis, V. et al. 2003. The Cyprus Collections in the Medelhavsmuseet. Nicosia, p. 26.

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

All series of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition