Field photograph·C00480·1927
The theatre at Soli
Description
A line of men in shirts, waistcoats and hats links arms and moves across a dusty excavation, while others sit at a wooden table on the right. Wheelbarrows, planks and a bench lie on the higher ground behind, and women and children watch from the stone blocks along the back wall at top right. Cut stone walls rise on the left.
Other scan of this record (1)
- Description, scan 2
- A line of men in shirts and dark waistcoats links arms and moves together across the excavated ground. Women sit and stand on a stone wall at the upper right, and a group sits at a wooden table in the foreground. Wheelbarrows, planks and a wooden bench lie among the cut stone blocks of the theatre, with the sea visible at the far left.
English, translated from the original record
Field photograph: the theatre at Soli, with people, a bench and a wheelbarrow.
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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)