Field photograph·C03979·1927
The theatre at Soli
Description
A narrow excavated cutting runs away from the viewer between two stone-faced walls of rubble and cut blocks, with a row of large worked steps across its foreground. A wooden ranging pole stands in the cutting, and two stone blocks rest on a timber frame at its far end. Behind, the tiered stone seating of the theatre rises up the slope above cleared, grassy ground.
Other scan of this record (1)
- Description, scan 2
- A narrow excavated trench runs away from the viewer between two walls of rough stone blocks and rubble. In the foreground a flight of large cut stone steps crosses the trench, and a wooden post with a stone block laid across its top stands near the far end. Behind the trench, stone tiers of the theatre seating rise up the slope.
English, translated from the original record
Stones and steps during excavation at the theatre at Soli.
More from Soli
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C00200The theatre at Soli, Evagoras in the eastern parodos
C00204Byzantine walls at Soli
C00220The theatre at Soli: work on the substructure walls of the east eisodos
C00226The theatre at Soli. Work on the orchestra from the west
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)