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Photograph·19026i

Paphos: inside a rock-cut tomb, looking out

Interior of a rock-cut tomb looking toward a bright entrance, with a seated man on a ledge at left
Photograph: John Thomson, 1878. Wellcome Collection, London, 19026i. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Positive from the glass negative

Description

Looking out from inside a cavernous rock-cut tomb chamber toward a bright opening on the right, where sunlight floods in. On the left, a man sits on a stone ledge cut into the wall. Rubble and loose stones lie across the floor between the walls.

Other images (2)

  • Paphos: inside a rock-cut tomb, looking out, 1981 contact print1981 contact print
  • Paphos: inside a rock-cut tomb, looking out, The glass negativeThe glass negative

English

The inside of a rock-cut tomb chamber at Paphos, looking out towards the sunlit entrance, with a man seated on a ledge cut in the rock wall.

Written on the negative

Entrance to a tomb Paphos Cyprus