Series·Swedish Cyprus Expedition

Vouni palace, rooms 66–135

100 field photographs · 1928–31

Site: Vouni

These 100 field photographs by John Lindros cover the other half of the palace at Vouni, the hilltop building on the north-west coast that Alfred Westholm excavated for the Swedish Cyprus Expedition in 1928–1929. The museum filed them in two folders, rooms 66–100 and rooms 101–135. They show the rest of the complex and the small sanctuaries around it: walls in rubble and ashlar, rooms partly cut into the slope, fences and a cart at the edge of the dig, and finds lying on the floors, as in Room 107. In this range are Room 76, with its sink, and the main sanctuary of the palace, whose Room 129 held a group of sculptures.

The excavators dated the building from about 500 BC to its destruction in the early fourth century; its purpose, a royal residence or an Achaemenid garrison, is disputed. The rooms are described in SCE III. Continue with rooms 1–65, the finds in situ, the excavation and Westholm's notebook DII:3C.

Sources

Gjerstad, E., Lindros, J., Sjöqvist, E. and Westholm, A. 1937. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927–1931, vol. III. Stockholm, pp. 111–228, 277–290.
Hellström, P. 2009. "The Palace of Vouni Revisited". In Medelhavsmuseet: Focus on the Mediterranean 4. Stockholm, pp. 28–42.