Photograph·pht_05383·c.1966

Lions Club excursion to Ancient Salamis

Group of people, including children, gathered beside a stone column with ruined columns behind them at Salamis
Photograph: Edmond Torikian, c.1966. pht_05383. "Lions Club excursion to Ancient Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized.

Description

In the foreground, several boys and a girl with a white headband stand close together, with a child in a white headscarf seated at the lower centre. Behind them, a woman with dark hair leans against a large stone block and drum, and another woman in a headscarf and glasses stands to the right. Rows of standing columns and low walls stretch across the open ground on the left under an overcast sky.

English

A group of people, including several children, gather beside a stone column at the Salamis site in Famagusta. A woman with dark hair leans against the column, while a woman in a headscarf and glasses stands at the right. Ruined columns stand in the background.

Inscription, as transcribed by CVAR

Inscription on the envelope with pen: Lions Club Excursion

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