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Field photograph·Csn0319

Hotel terrace in Kyrenia with members of the Swedish excavation

Hotel terrace in Kyrenia with members of the Swedish excavation relaxing on deckchairs above a tiled floor.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn0319. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Seen from above, four people relax on a tiled terrace behind a white balustrade. A man in a deckchair on the left has a small child sitting beside him, a woman sits upright on a chair near the centre, and a man in a dark coat leans on the parapet at right. Round white tables stand near the patterned floor, with bare ground beyond the wall.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Hotel terrace in Kyrenia with people relaxing in deck chairs above a patterned tiled floor
Description, scan 2
Seen from above, a terrace with a geometric cube-pattern tiled floor and a white balustrade along its edge. A man in a deck chair sits at lower left with a child beside him, a woman sits in a deck chair at centre, and a man in a dark coat leans on the wall at right. Small round tables stand at the left edge, and bare ground lies beyond the wall.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Hotel terrace in Kyrenia with members of the Swedish excavation relaxing.

Swedish, as on the record

Folk och Fä 4

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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)