Field photograph·C00709·1927–31
Soli topography
Description
A wide landscape view taken beneath the branches of a tree, which frames the top of the picture. Rolling hills with a long flat-topped ridge rise across the middle distance, with scattered small trees and bushes on open ground. In the foreground, dark cultivated soil runs down to a low bank, and a thin strip of sea shows on the horizon at the right.
Other scan of this record (1)
- Description, scan 2
- A wide view across open country at Soli, taken from beneath the spreading branches of a tree that fills the top of the frame. Rounded hills rise in the middle distance, with a low hill at the left edge and the faint line of the sea on the right. The foreground is dark, rough ground with low shrubs and scattered small trees across the pale open plain.
English, translated from the original record
Topographical view at Soli, with mountains, trees and plants visible.
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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)