Field photograph·C03655·1930–31

Cholades, Room V from the west at Soli

Excavated stone walls of Room V at Soli, seen from the west, with a tent and trees behind. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1930–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C03655. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Low stone walls of an excavated building stand in a dug area, with rubble foundations and pale faces showing. Flat, cleared ground lies between the walls, and a trench runs along the lower left. Behind, a canvas tent stands beside trees, with a flat plain and the sea along the horizon.

Other scans of this record (2)

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Description, scan 2: Low stone walls of an excavated building stand in the foreground, their rubble courses and plastered faces partly exposed among trenches and spoil heaps. A dark tent and a few trees stand on the left, with the sea visible on the horizon beyond the site. Cultivated fields stretch across the right background, and a few small distant figures are scattered in the excavation area.
Description, scan 3: Low rubble walls of stone, some with faced courses, outline rooms on a partly excavated site. Spoil heaps and trenches lie around the walls. A tent and two trees stand at the left, while the sea, flat cultivated land and distant hills stretch across the background to the right.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Cholades. Room V from the west. Soli.

Swedish, as on the record

Cholades. Rum V från väster. Soli. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen