Photograph·PNT-00295·1950

The Cyprus Calendar 1950: In the cell of St. Neophytos

The Cyprus Calendar 1950: In the cell of St. Neophytos
Photograph: Bernard Davies, 1950. PNT-00295. "The Cyprus Calendar 1950: In the cell of St. Neophytos". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized.

English, as on the record

The January printed photograph of the Cyprus Calendar (1950) portrays the wall paintings in the cell of St Neophytos (Engleistra).

Inscription, as transcribed by CVAR

Printed in lower left: In the cell of St. Neophitos, Bernard Davis; In the very heart of the cliff he found a cave and began to clear it, and hew it out. Yet much time passed before it might serve him for a dwelling fir twenty and four years he lived hermit's life in this cell; Life of St. Neophytos; The Cyprus Calendar 1950; January

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