Photograph·pht_09198·1966

Salamis

Tall ornate columns in a receding row across the Salamis ruins, with low walls and trees behind them under cloudy sky.
Photograph: Edmond Torikian, 1966. pht_09198. "Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized.

Description

Two tall columns with carved leaf capitals stand in the foreground, and a long row of shorter columns with similar capitals recedes into the distance. Low stone walls and a few trees lie behind the colonnade, and the ground is bare earth. No people are visible.

English

A row of columns with leaf capitals recedes across the palaestra of the gymnasium at Salamis. Low walls and trees stand behind the colonnade under a cloudy sky.

Inscription, as transcribed by CVAR

Inscription on the envelope with marker: Kyren wide angle

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