Photograph·pht_01144·c.1930

Salamis ruins in Famagusta

Broken marble columns and column bases among trees and grass at Salamis ruins
Photograph: c.1930. pht_01144. "Salamis ruins in Famagusta". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized.

Description

Several column shafts stand upright at different heights along a grassy path, some on tall stepped bases. Fallen column drums lie in the foreground and to the left, and a dark, wooded slope rises behind the ruins under an overcast sky. A large cut stone block sits at the bottom edge of the view.

English

Broken columns and column bases stand and lie among grass and trees at the ruins of Salamis near Famagusta. A large fallen column drum lies in the foreground, with a stone block below it.

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