Series·Swedish Cyprus Expedition

Finds from other excavations (Vounous, Markides at Lapithos and Arpera)

3 field photographs, 130 object photographs · 1927–31

Sites: Bellapais-Vounous, Lapithos, Lapithos-Ayia Anastasia, Lapithos-Vrysi tou Barba, Kalopsidha, Katydhata

This series holds 133 photographs, nearly all of objects, from excavations in which the Swedish Cyprus Expedition took no part. They came into the Stockholm archive through the expedition's links with other excavators.

Sixty-eight show Early Bronze Age pottery, mostly Red Polished, from James R. Stewart's excavations at Vounous for the British School at Athens in 1937–38, labelled by tomb and object (Vounous 161.10). Stewart and his wife Eleanor published the cemetery in 1950 in a Swedish series, through Einar Gjerstad. In 1946–47 Stewart sent his Vounous records to Stockholm in ten parcels, among them negatives, mounted prints, catalogue cards and tomb drawings, and they joined the archive of the Cyprus collections. Fifty-seven show pottery from tombs at Lapithos excavated for the Cyprus Museum by Menelaos Markides, captioned "Lapithos Markides" with a tomb number. Gjerstad had studied Markides's finds in the Cyprus Museum in 1923, before the expedition began. A few photographs show finds from Kalopsidha and Katydhata, and two field photographs show Tomb 501 at Lapithos.

See the excavation pages for Vounous 1937–38 and Lapithos 1913, and the people pages for James R. Stewart and Menelaos Markides.

Sources

Göransson, K. 2013. 'The field records of J.R. Stewart's excavations at Vounous: archival material at the Medelhavsmuseet'. In A. B. Knapp, J. M. Webb and A. McCarthy (eds), J.R.B. Stewart: An Archaeological Legacy (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 139). Uppsala, pp. 195–200.
Stewart, E. and Stewart, J. R. 1950. Vounous 1937–38: Field-Report on the Excavations Sponsored by the British School of Archaeology at Athens. Lund.
Göransson, K. 2012. 'The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, the Cyprus collections in Stockholm and the Swedish excavations after the SCE'. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42, p. 400.