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Field photograph·C00724·1927

The theatre at Soli, facing east

Theatre ruins at Soli with curved rows of stone seating, looking across the flat ground toward the sea and plain.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00724. Public domain (CC0).

Description

The photograph looks across the curved tiers of stone seating of the theatre at Soli toward a flat, paved central floor. A dark opening in a wall stands at the back of the seating, and a low wall runs along the upper edge. On the left, the sea, flat cultivated land with scattered trees, and distant hills lie under a pale sky.

Other scans of this record (2)

  • Excavated theatre at Soli with curved stone seating rows around a paved orchestra, with the coast and fields beyond.Full resolution
  • The theatre at Soli seen from above, with curved stone seating tiers, a level central floor and the sea beyond.
Description, scan 2
Curved rows of stone seating step down around a paved circular orchestra in the foreground. Masonry remains and a collapsed wall line the slope to the right and centre, and a low wall runs along the left edge. Beyond, flat cultivated fields and a shoreline with a few low buildings stretch toward the sea under a pale sky.
Description, scan 3
Curved tiers of cut stone seating rise on the right around a level, pale circular floor in the theatre at Soli. Stone blocks and a low wall line the left side, and a dark doorway-like opening stands in the wall behind the seating. Beyond, a flat coastal plain with fields and a stretch of sea extends to the horizon under a pale sky.

English, translated from the Swedish record

The theatre facing east. Soli.

Swedish, as on the record

Teatern mot öster. Soli. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

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