Field photograph·C08434·1927–1931

Building with a tree and vault, North Africa

Courtyard of a whitewashed building with arcades, a palm tree growing in the open centre, and a dark column in the foreground. — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C08434. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Looking across a paved courtyard through a dark arch and column in the foreground. Whitewashed arches surround the court, with doorways and a small recess in the back wall, and a palm tree's fronds rise above the roofline at the top left. Some tiled panels decorate the walls on the right.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Building with a tree and a vault, North Africa.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Nord-Afrika.