Field photograph·C01520·1927
Work in progress at the excavation of the theatre at Soli
Description
Men and women work in and around an excavation trench on a dry, open slope with scattered trees and low hills behind. Several wear headscarves and hats, and some hold pickaxes; a wheelbarrow stands at the edge of the cut. A white tent and a dark dog lie on the right.
Other scan of this record (1)
- Description, scan 2
- Several people, mostly women in headscarves and striped dresses and men in hats, work in a trench cut into a slope, holding picks and hoes. A white tent stands at the right beside a dark dog, and the open, sparsely wooded landscape with low hills and stone walls stretches behind them.
English, translated from the Swedish record
Work in progress at the excavation of the theatre at Soli.
Swedish, as on the record
Arbetsbild från utgrävningen av teatern i Soli.
Swedish, as on the record
Människor ("Folk och Fä").
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C00239The theatre at Soli, excavating the proskenion
C00244The theatre at Soli: pipe in Room III, eastern corner of the stage
Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)