Field photograph·C00471·1927
The theatre at Soli, no. 56 in situ
Description
Two column drums lie diagonally on the excavated ground in front of a earthen face, one with a break near its middle. A carved stone fragment with a ridged, shell-like surface rests against the bank beside them, and a large rectangular block sits to the right. Behind, a wheelbarrow and a wheeled cart stand near the spoil heap, a bucket sits on a wall, and a blurred figure pushes a barrow on the left.
Other scans of this record (2)
- Description, scan 2
- Two column drums and a carved architectural fragment lie in the excavated earth of a trench, against a cut face of masonry and soil. At the top of the bank a wheelbarrow, a tipped cart and a bucket sit among cut stone blocks, and a blurred worker walks at the left. A third person is partly visible behind the cart and another at the far right edge.
- Description, scan 3
- Two column drums lie on the excavated ground, one diagonally in the lower left and one on the right, with a carved stone fragment resting between them and a squared block at lower right. Behind them a bank of earth and rubble holds stone blocks, with a wheelbarrow and a wooden barrow on the ridge and a bucket at top centre. A blurred figure crosses at the left and a seated person is near the right edge.
English, translated from the Swedish record
The theatre, no. 56 in situ.
Swedish, as on the record
Teatern, no. 56 in situ. Soli Svenska Cypernexpeditionen
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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)