Field photograph·C00483·1927
The theatre at Soli, festival in the orchestra
Description
A long row of seated men in light shirts and hats sits on a bench along the left side of the flat central orchestra, with a few more people standing and sitting nearby. Curved tiers of the theatre's seating rise steeply on the right, where a group sits in rows. At the centre, two men sit at a small table, and a figure crouches at the lower right.
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- Description, scan 2
- A large group of men in hats and light shirts sit on a long wooden bench across the semicircular orchestra, while a few men sit at a small table nearby. More people sit on the curved tiers of the theatre at upper right, and a standing man at left gestures toward the group. Wheelbarrows are visible at the top left corner.
- Description, scan 3
- Seated men in hats and waistcoats sit along a long wooden bench at the left, while a man holding a stringed instrument stands at the edge and a dancer in dark trousers raises an arm in the open sandy orchestra. Two men sit at a small table near the centre right, and women in dark clothing crowd the curved, stepped tiers on the right. Baskets, buckets and wheelbarrows are placed on the tiers and at the top left.
English, translated from the Swedish record
The theatre, festival in the orchestra.
Swedish, as on the record
Teatern, fest på orkestran. Soli Svenska Cypernexpeditionen
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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)