Series·Swedish Cyprus Expedition

Objects: limestone and marble sculpture

413 object photographs

Sites: Arsos, Salamis

This series holds 413 photographs of stone sculpture whose museum record names no find-place. The captions file them under the expedition's sculpture styles: Proto-Cypriote, Neo-Cypriote, Cypro-Egyptian and Cypro-Greek I and II, with separate groups for marble sculpture (59), "Minor Plastic", reliefs and sarcophagi.

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Many of the prints are of pieces in other collections. Sixty-four cite the Cesnola Collection; others name the British Museum, the Cyprus Museum, the Metropolitan Museum and the Ashmolean. Twenty-four are filed under "Swedish Collectors". Thirty-seven name Arsos, with phase labels such as Arsos VII and Arsos VIII–IX; Arsos is not among the sites the expedition excavated.

Sculpture with excavation numbers is in the Kition and Mersinaki series and in the Vouni, Soli and Ayia Irini series. The "No recorded place" value under Site in the explorer gathers every unplaced object photograph.

Sources

  • Karageorghis, V. et al. 2003. The Cyprus Collections in the Medelhavsmuseet. Nicosia, pp. 11, 25–26, 155.
  • Gjerstad, E. 1948. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, vol. IV, part 2: The Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic and Cypro-Classical Periods. Stockholm.

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

All series of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition