Series·CVAR photographic archive
Selwyn Roberts's postcards and photographs
25 photographs · 1900–99
Sites: Salamis, Soli, Vouni, Palaepaphos
Twenty-five photographs and postcards from the collections of the police officer Selwyn Roberts at CVAR. Fifteen are holiday snapshots of about 1958 at Salamis: Roberts and his friends posing beside the marble statues of the Roman baths, the Roman agora, and the colonnaded lane that leads to the Roman latrines.
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Four are older printed postcards and photographs that CVAR dates to about 1918: the theatre at Soli looking towards Morphou Bay, the "Temple of Venus" at Kouklia, which is the sanctuary of Aphrodite at Palaepaphos, and the broken columns of Salamis lying among trees. One postcard bears the name of the publisher J. P. Foscolo. Six more are undated photographic postcards by Mangoian Bros.: four views of the ruins of Salamis, and two copies of a card of the central court of the palace at Vouni.
Sources
- Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Nicosia. Catalogue records of the Police Officer Selwyn Roberts collections ("holiday photos", "Cyprus", "Cyprus postcards I" and "Cyprus postcards II"). https://cvar.severis.org/en/explore/collections-archives/photographs/ (accessed 29 October 2026).
Photograph: Selwyn Roberts, c.1958. pht_00089. "A marble statue at Roman Baths of Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: Selwyn Roberts, c.1958. pht_00090. "Marble statue at Roman Baths of Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: Selwyn Roberts, c.1958. pht_00091. "A marble statue at the Roman Baths of Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: Selwyn Roberts, c.1958. pht_00092. "A marble statue at the Roman Baths of Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: Selwyn Roberts, c.1958. pht_00093. "A marble statue at Roman Baths of Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: Selwyn Roberts, c.1958. pht_00094. "Salamis ancient city". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: Selwyn Roberts, c.1958. pht_00095. "Salamis ancient city". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: Mangoian Bros., 1900–99. pht_00457. "The ruins of Salamis seen through a stone arch". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: Mangoian Bros., 1900–99. pht_00460. "The central court of the palace at Vouni". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: Mangoian Bros., 1900–99. pht_00463. "Column bases at Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: 1900–99. pht_00464. "Capitals and columns at Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: Mangoian Bros., 1900–99. pht_00466. "Broken columns at Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: Mangoian Bros., 1900–99. pht_00470. "The central court of the palace at Vouni". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1918. pht_00725. "Greek theatre at Soli, looking toward Morphou Bay". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: J.P.Foscolo, c.1918. pht_00745. "Temple of Venus, Kouklia". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1918. pht_00772. "Ancient broken columns at Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1918. pht_00773. "Ruins of Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1958. pht_SR_031. "The ancient city of Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1958. pht_SR_032. "Lane leading to the Roman Latrines at Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1958. pht_SR_033. "Marble statues at Roman Baths of Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1958. pht_SR_034. "Marble statues at the Roman Baths of Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1958. pht_SR_035. "A marble statue at Roman Baths of Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1958. pht_SR_036. "A marble statue at Roman Baths of Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1958. pht_SR_037. "A marble statue at Roman Baths of Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized. 
Photograph: c.1958. pht_SR_038. "A marble statue at Roman Baths of Salamis". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized.