Photograph·pht_01145·c.1930

Salamis ruins in Famagusta

Broken columns and column bases among stone blocks, with trees behind, at the Salamis ruins
Photograph: c.1930. pht_01145. "Salamis ruins in Famagusta". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized.

Description

Several standing column shafts rise among scattered column drums and a carved capital on the left. A fallen drum lies in the foreground, and a low wall of stone blocks runs along the left side. Dense trees and a bank of earth fill the background under a pale sky.

English

Broken columns, column drums and a carved capital lie among stone blocks at the Salamis ruins in Famagusta. Trees crowd the hillside behind the ruins.

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