Field photograph·C00240·1927
Theatre at Soli, excavation with people and stone
Description
A trench is cut into the hillside, with a wall of large cut stone blocks on the right and a rubble wall on the left. About a dozen people stand along the upper edges, mostly women in headscarves and long skirts, with several men in hats and work clothes at the right. Loose soil and stones lie in the background.
Other scan of this record (1)
- Description, scan 2
- A row of women in dark headscarves and long dresses stands on the upper edge of an excavated cutting on the left, while men in hats and suits stand on the right. Cut stone masonry and rubble walls line the trench, and a worker in a cap stands near the blocks in the foreground.
English, translated from the original record
The Theatre at Soli, with people and stone during excavation.
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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)