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Photograph·19028i

Paphos: the masonry wall of a tomb in a trench

Seated figure in a dark dress beside a trench cut against a massive stone wall, with rubble slopes above
Photograph: John Thomson, 1878. Wellcome Collection, London, 19028i. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Positive from the glass negative

Description

A person in a dark long dress and white headwrap leans on a grassy bank beside a trench. Massive dressed stone blocks form a wall that rises on the right, and rough rubble covers the slope above. A small stone building with a window stands in the background.

Other images (2)

  • Paphos: the masonry wall of a tomb in a trench, 1981 contact print1981 contact print
  • Paphos: the masonry wall of a tomb in a trench, The glass negativeThe glass negative

English

A person resting on a bank beside a trench that exposes the massive dressed-stone wall of a tomb. Thomson's note says only "Tomb, Cyprus"; Wellcome catalogues it with his Paphos views.

Written on the negative

Tomb, Cyprus