Field photograph·C01369·1929

Nitovikla: the fort seen from the north-west

Nitovikla fort on a hill seen from the north-west, with scrub in the foreground and the sea behind. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01369. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A ruined stone fort with low wall lines stands on a rounded hilltop above dense scrub and bushes in the foreground. The sea is visible as a pale band on the horizon behind the hill, under a bright, empty sky. The walls show as rows of rough masonry along the crest and sides of the hill.

Other scans of this record (3)

Description, scan 2: A low rocky hill rises out of dense scrubby bushes, its flat top crowned with the stone walls of the fort. Behind it a wide, calm sea stretches to a pale, hazy horizon under an almost empty sky. A small dark speck sits on the water to the left.
Description, scan 3: A ruined fort of stone walls crowns a low, rounded hill, with courses of masonry visible along its top and slopes. Dense scrub and bushes fill the foreground and lower slopes, and a pale, flat expanse of sea lies behind the hill under a plain sky.
Description, scan 4: A low, rounded hill crowned by the remains of a stone fort with visible wall lines running along its top. Dense scrubby bushes and trees cover the slopes in the foreground, and the flat, hazy sea fills the background under a pale sky. The photograph is an open view with no people or equipment visible.

English, translated from the Swedish record

The fort from the north-west.

Swedish, as on the record

Fortet från nordväst. Nitovikla Svenska Cypernexpeditionen