Field photograph·C00705·1927

The theatre, orchestra and cavea at Soli

The theatre at Soli, with tiered seating rising around a flat orchestra — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00705. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Tiered rows of seating are cut into a hillside and curve around a wide, flat, pale orchestra in the foreground. A single figure in light clothing stands on the orchestra near the lowest rows. Low stone walls run along the crest of the slope behind, and the sky is bare apart from a small cloud.

Other scans of this record (2)

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Description, scan 2: Looking across the open, curving orchestra toward the rows of tiered seats cut into the hillside, the cavea of the theatre at Soli. A single standing person in light clothing stands near the lowest tier at the centre. Rubble and a low wall line the ridge at the top of the slope under a clear sky.
Description, scan 3: A man in a pale shirt, light trousers and a hat stands on the flat orchestra of the theatre at Soli, near the foot of the curved tiers. The cavea rises in many rows of seats cut into the hillside, with stone walls and ruins along the top edge under a pale sky. Dry grass and bare earth cover the slopes.

English, translated from the Swedish record

The theatre, orchestra and cavea. Alfred Westholm. Soli.

Swedish, as on the record

Teatern, orkestran och cavean. Alfred Westholm. Soli. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen