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Photograph·18994i

Larnaca: carved tombs in the graveyard of St Lazarus

Three carved stone tombs with foliage decoration and inscribed panels, in front of a wooden fence
Photograph: John Thomson, 1878. Wellcome Collection, London, 18994i. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Positive from the glass negative

Description

Three carved stone tombs stand in a yard, the nearest with a sloping lid and sides covered in dense scrolling foliage. Its panels carry lines of inscription within recessed fields. On the right, a tomb has a carved finial of rounded forms and a fan-shaped motif on its side. Behind them, a wooden fence of upright slats runs along a low rail, and a rough stone wall rises at the left.

Other images (2)

  • Larnaca: carved tombs in the graveyard of St Lazarus, 1981 contact print1981 contact print
  • Larnaca: carved tombs in the graveyard of St Lazarus, The glass negativeThe glass negative

English

A close view of carved tombstones in the graveyard that negative 377 shows from further back. Wellcome's catalogue reads one of the epitaphs as that of a Londoner born in 1672.

Written on the negative

Tombs, Cyprus