Field photograph·C00249·1927
Soli, the theatre
Description
Workers dig in a shallow excavation at Soli, with men in hats and shirts and women in long dresses moving earth. Two wheelbarrows stand in the cut, and a heap of spoil lies nearby. At the left, a cut bank shows stone blocks and a dark opening, and bare hills rise in the background.
Other scan of this record (1)
- Description, scan 2
- A view down onto a dry, stony hillside where a group of about a dozen people, men and women in long dresses and headscarves, dig with shovels in a sloping trench. Two wheelbarrows stand among them and a spoil heap lies to one side. Behind, cut stone walls and a pale earth face rise up the slope, with bare hills on the horizon.
English, translated from the original record
Soli: the theatre, during excavation.
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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)