John Lindros

John Lindros drew the plans and took the photographs of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition. He was born in 1898 and died in 1961². Before Cyprus he was known for studies of traditional Swedish houses made for the Nordiska Museet³.

The expedition's first volume lists Einar Gjerstad as chief, with Lindros as architect and Erik Sjöqvist and Alfred Westholm as assistants; Lindros "acted as draughtsman and photographer" while the other two directed the excavations, which ran from the end of September 1927 to February 1931¹. Göransson writes that he travelled between the sites to record them². Gjerstad's memoir recalls him setting up his camera on the roofs of houses at Lapithos, where he was taken for a magician, and coming to Vouni to draw the plan of the palace; it also names him and his wife Rosa Lindros among the 1927 party⁴. His film of the expedition and his photographs of Menelaos Markides with Rupert Gunnis are credited in Stanley-Price's study of Gunnis and Markides⁵.

In 1929 he excavated the Ayia Irini sanctuary with Sjöqvist. His draft plan of the sanctuary survives in the archive of the Medelhavsmuseet and shows poorer preservation than the published plans: corners of the cult building are missing, and circular pavements that the published plans omit appear on it. Houby-Nielsen reads the published plans as restored and embellished³. Lindros is named with Gjerstad, Sjöqvist and Westholm as co-author of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition volumes I to III, published in 1934, 1935 and 1937¹. The expedition archive, with about 10,000 negatives, is in the Medelhavsmuseet in Stockholm².