Field photograph·C00205·1927
Soli: the theatre
Description
A broken vessel lies on its side in a narrow cut in the soil, its rim and fragments still partly embedded in the earth. A rounded stone block sits in the foreground, and the sides of the cut are rough earth and stone. The view is a close, straight-on photograph of the excavated pit.
Other scan of this record (1)
- Description, scan 2
- A broken vessel lies on its side in a small excavated pit, its rim tilted toward the camera and its pieces still partly in the soil. In the foreground a large flat-topped stone block sits at the edge of the cut, and the earthen walls of the pit rise on both sides.
English, translated from the original record
The theatre at Soli, with stone and excavation visible in the picture.
More from Soli
578 items in the archive
C00200The theatre at Soli, Evagoras in the eastern parodos
C00204Byzantine walls at Soli
C00220The theatre at Soli: work on the substructure walls of the east eisodos
C00226The theatre at Soli. Work on the orchestra from the west
C00239The theatre at Soli, excavating the proskenion
C00244The theatre at Soli: pipe in Room III, eastern corner of the stage
Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)