Field photograph·C00464·1927
Soli: the theatre
Description
Two cylindrical column drums lie on rubble walls in an excavated trench at Soli. A broken stone block rests above the right-hand drum, and a rough wall of small stones runs along the upper left. Earth banks and loose soil surround the cut, and the ground is bare and unpaved.
Other scan of this record (1)
- Description, scan 2
- Two cylindrical stone column drums lie across stone blocks at the edge of an excavated trench, and a larger weathered stone fragment rests above them on the right. Rubble stones and layered earth form the back of the cutting, with bare excavated ground in the foreground.
English, translated from the original record
The theatre at Soli, with stone and excavation visible in the picture.
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)