Field photograph·C10046

Famagusta, facade with door and gateway

Stone facade with a moulded arched doorway and a wooden plank door, Famagusta
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C10046. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A tall facade of regular stone blocks has a deeply moulded arched doorway at its centre, with stepped carved bands over slender columns with capitals on each side. A heavy wooden plank door fills the opening, and a rectangular window and two small recesses sit higher up in the wall. Low shrubs grow along the base.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Doorway in a stone facade at Famagusta, with a moulded arch, paired columns and a wooden plank door
Description, scan 2
A doorway set in a wall of rectangular stone blocks, framed by a deeply moulded arch with zigzag-patterned bands. Slender columns with capitals stand on each side, and a plain stone lintel sits above a wooden plank door with iron fittings. A small window opening sits high above the arch, and low shrubs grow at the base of the wall.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Copy photograph. Famagusta: facade with a door, a gate and brick decoration.

Swedish, as on the record

Repro. Cypernexpeditionen.

Swedish, as on the record

Famagusta. Dörr från byggnaden av Saint Nicholas katedral, nu Lala Mustafa Pasha Moskén (Turkish: Lala Mustafa Paşa Camii).