Field photograph·C06783

The Temple of Aphrodite in 1934

Ruined stone walls of the Temple of Aphrodite, with the sea on the horizon — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C06783. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Low walls of large dressed stone blocks run across the foreground, with fallen blocks and rubble scattered over bare ground. Further back, rows of rough stone foundations lead towards a small standing stone structure on the right, and a flat strip of sea lies beyond the land.

English, translated from the Swedish record

The Temple of Aphrodite, 1934.

Swedish, as on the record

Afroditetemplet 1934. Afrodites helgedom var en helgedom i antika Pafos på Cypern tillägnad gudinnan Afrodite (grekisk gudinna för kärlek och skönhet). Den ligger i Kouklia (grekiska: Κούκλια, turkiska: Kukla), en by i Pafos-distriktet där Afrodites legendariska födelse ägde rum.

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