Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Field photograph·Csn0229

Nicosia: buildings, trees and hills

Deep eroded gully in the foreground, with white buildings, a windmill, trees and low hills beyond at Nicosia.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn0229. Public domain (CC0).

Description

In the foreground a deep, eroded gully cuts across pale, sparsely grassed ground. Behind it a row of low white single-storey buildings stands near a windmill and telegraph poles. On the right, a group of trees and another house sit below a range of low hills under a pale sky.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Deep eroded gully across flat ground, with low white houses, a windmill and trees behind and hills in the distance at Nicosia.
Description, scan 2
A deep gully with steep earth banks cuts across flat, sparsely grassed ground in the foreground. Behind it stand several low, white houses with pitched roofs, a tall metal lattice windmill, telegraph poles and a group of trees on the right. Low hills lie in the far distance under a pale sky.

English, translated from the original record

Buildings and trees, with hills in the background, at Nicosia.