Field photograph·C00454·1927
The theatre at Soli
Description
Tiered rows of stone seats rise in curves up the slope of the theatre at Soli, with ruined walls along the top edge. In the foreground a narrow excavated passage between low stone walls runs down into the ground, with a wooden plank laid across it on upright posts. The open ground around is bare and dry.
Other scan of this record (1)
- Description, scan 2
- The camera looks across the curved rows of stone seating steps of the theatre at Soli toward the upper walls on the hillside. In the foreground a narrow, deep cutting runs between low stone walls, with a wooden beam resting across posts over its far end. No people are visible.
English, translated from the original record
Stones and steps during excavation at the theatre at Soli.
More from Soli
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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)