Field photograph·C01135

Market square, Nicosia

Market square in Nicosia with people in the shade of a colonnade, a vendor's stool stacked with bread rings in front.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01135. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A crowd of people moves through a covered market square lined with tall, slender columns. In the foreground two young men stand beside a folding stool holding stacked ring-shaped breads, and a man in a dark jacket stands at left. Women in headscarves sit or stand at low stalls and benches on a raised platform to the right, with more figures and a stone building behind.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Covered market square at Nicosia, with tall columns, a crowd of people and a bread stall on a wooden stand.
Description, scan 2
A covered market square at Nicosia, with a row of tall columns along a wide arcade. A crowd of men and women, many in headscarves, moves between stalls. In the foreground a man and two boys stand beside a wooden stand stacked with round flat loaves, while women sit on low stools on a raised paved platform at the right.

English, translated from the Swedish record

The market square, Nicosia.

Swedish, as on the record

Torgplatsen. Nicosia. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen