Field photograph·Csn0181
The ruins of Salamis
Description
Several stone column drums and carved capital fragments lie in grass and low growth in the foreground. A tall upright stone block stands at the centre, and a larger column shaft rises at the right edge. Dense trees and shrubs fill the background under a pale sky.
Other scan of this record (1)
- Description, scan 2
- Architectural fragments lie among bushes and grass at Salamis: column drums and carved capitals are heaped at left, with a large cylindrical drum on the ground in front. On the right, a tall upright block and a moulded base stand against dense greenery. Below the photograph is a printed text block on a dark card.
English, as on the record
THE RUINS OF SALAMIS. "It was of a great circuit, and there be to this day mountaines of faire, great and strong, buildings, and not onely there, but also in many places of the Iland. Moreover when they digge, plowe, or trench thay finde sometimes, olde antient coines, some of golde, some of silver, and some of copper, yea and many tombes and vautes with sepulchers in them." John Locke-1553(Voyage to Jerusalem). Mangoian Bros.
English, as on the record
THE RUINS OF SALAMIS. "It was of a great circuit, and there be to this day mountaines of faire, great and strong, buildings, and not onely there, but also in many places of the Iland. Moreover when they digge, plowe, or trench thay finde sometimes, olde antient coines, some of golde, some of silver, and some of copper, yea and many tombes and vautes with sepulchers in them." John Locke-1553(Voyage to Jerusalem). Mangoian Bros.
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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)