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Field photograph·C00481·1927

Theatre at Soli

Two men dancing face to face in front of seated musicians at the excavated theatre at Soli.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00481. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Two men in dark trousers and white shirts dance face to face in the foreground of an excavated area. Three seated musicians behind them play stringed instruments, and a row of men sits on the upper bank beside wheelbarrows and a spade. Cut stone blocks line the excavation, and a man in a jacket sits on a stone bench at the right.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Two men dancing on the bare floor of the theatre at Soli, with seated musicians and workers on wheelbarrows behind them.
Description, scan 2
Two men in waistcoats and white shirts face each other mid-dance on a pale, open floor. Behind them two seated musicians play a violin and a stringed instrument, and a man in a cap sits on a bench at right. Along the top of the excavated cutting about eight men sit on wheelbarrows, with a spade leaning against one barrow.

English, translated from the original record

The theatre at Soli, with people, a spade and an instrument.

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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)