Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Field photograph·C00430

Building with a man and cloth, Nicosia

Single-storey building with shuttered windows, a standing man at the doorway and laundry hung on a line in front.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00430. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A plastered single-storey building with shuttered windows and a dark doorway stands along an unpaved dirt street. A man in dark clothing stands at the left edge by the door. White laundry hangs on a line stretched across the front of a low wall and gate, and a larger white cloth hangs from a line on the right beside a stone-based wall.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Single-storey plastered house with shuttered windows, a man standing in the doorway and laundry hung on a line in front.
Description, scan 2
A whitewashed single-storey house with green-shuttered windows and a panelled door stands along an unpaved dirt road. A man in a dark suit stands at the left in the open doorway. Laundry hangs on a line across a low wall and a wooden gate in the centre, and a larger white cloth hangs over a line at the right beside a stone wall.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Photograph of a building, a man and cloth at Gladstone Rd 11, Nicosia, the Swedish headquarters.

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").