Field photograph·C06785
Temple of Aphrodite at Kouklia, 1934
Description
A large, leaning tree with bare, spreading branches fills the right and upper part of the frame. In the middle distance a low dry-stone wall runs across the picture, with a small wooden post structure standing behind it. The foreground is strewn with stones and rubble, and beyond lies flat open land with scattered shrubs and low hills under a pale sky.
English, translated from the Swedish record
Temple of Aphrodite 1934. The picture shows a part of the temple.
Swedish, as on the record
Afrodites tempel 1934. Afroditetemplet var en helgedom i det 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. Bilden visar en del av templet.
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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)