Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–1931

The finds were divided in the autumn of 1930. Tomb groups and deposits were not split, all objects judged unique stayed in Cyprus, and Sweden received about two-thirds of nearly 18,000 finds; most of the gold remained in the Cyprus Museum, with casts sent to Stockholm. In March 1931 the share went by train from Nicosia to Famagusta and by ship to Sweden in 771 cases. The Cyprus collections later became part of the Medelhavsmuseet, founded in 1954.

This collection is the museum's photographic and drawing archive of the expedition: 14,033 records. About 3,200 are field photographs, most of them taken by Lindros: trenches, tombs opened and emptied, rooms with finds in place, workmen, the camps, villages and the roads between sites. More than 10,600 are object photographs of the finds, many marked with the excavation number (M.9.3 is Marion, Tomb 9, object 3; V. is Vouni). A smaller group holds field drawings and plans, mostly of Vouni. The series follow the museum's own archive folders, by site and then by tomb or room, with collection-wide series for objects filed by class.

Each record keeps the museum's Swedish text, with our English title and caption beside it, the folder it was filed in, a date where one can be given (the field season, labelled as an estimate when it is inferred), and links to the site, excavation, tomb and people it names. The museum's records are CC0; images are shown where the museum released them under CC0 or the Public Domain Mark, and images under other licences are not shown. Alongside the photographs the Archive holds the expedition's field diaries in transcription with our translation, among them Westholm's three Vouni notebooks, and volumes of the published series such as SCE IV:3 and SCE IV:1D. An account of the expedition and its sites since is in The Swedish Cyprus Expedition and What It Left Behind.