Field photograph·C00818

A terrace with columns and a railing, probably the entrance to the new school

Terrace with fluted columns, a balustrade and a patterned tiled floor, looking over a town with a church tower.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00818. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A covered terrace with tall fluted columns, one with a carved capital, and a balustrade of turned balusters along the edge. The tiled floor has a geometric patterned border. Beyond the railing, a town of low roofs and a church tower sits among trees below a hillside.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Terrace with fluted columns and a balustrade, overlooking a town and wooded hillside below
Description, scan 2
Three fluted columns, one with a scroll capital, frame a terrace in the foreground. A pale balustrade with turned balusters runs along the edge, and the floor has a geometric tiled pattern. Beyond the railing, white houses of a town lie below a hillside with terraced slopes and trees, and a church tower rises among the roofs.

English, translated from the Swedish record

A terrace with columns and a railing, probably the entrance/exit to the new school.

Swedish, as on the record

En terras med kolonner och räcke, antagligen ingången/utgången till den nya skolan.

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").