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Field photograph·C00711·1927

Festive meal being roasted at Soli

Two men roasting meat on a spit over stones at Soli
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00711. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A man in a wide-brimmed hat stands at the top right of a stone-lined pit, holding a knife. A second man sits at lower left, working a long metal spit that runs through a limb-shaped piece of meat lying among rocks. Loose stones and scrub surround them, and a small metal implement lies in the foreground.

Other scans of this record (2)

  • Two men preparing a whole animal on a spit among stones at Soli, one cutting with a knife.
  • Festive meal being roasted at Soli: a man holds a spit through a carcass while another cuts it with a knifeFull resolution
Description, scan 2
A man crouches at left, holding a spit through an animal carcass laid on stony ground. A second man stands at right, bent over the carcass with a knife in his hand. Large stones and a rough stone bank lie around them, with dry scrub growing above.
Description, scan 3
A man crouches at lower left holding a long spit through an animal carcass lying among large stones. A standing man in a wide-brimmed hat leans over the carcass and cuts it with a knife. Part of a third person, a boot and a hand, shows behind the stones at left, and a rough earth bank with stone courses rises at right.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Festive meal being roasted. Soli.

Swedish, as on the record

Festgeten stekes. Soli. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

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