Field photograph·Csn0329

Monastery, Vessberg 2:24: building with brick and trees

Stone wall with a round tracery window and buttress, with a view over a town and trees below, at Vessberg
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn0329. Public domain (CC0).

Description

In the foreground is a corner of a building built of rectangular stone blocks, with a large round window with stone tracery on the left and a narrow projecting buttress beside it. Through an opening on the right, the view falls over a town with houses and dense trees on the plain below, under a pale sky.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Stone wall with a circular tracery window and a corner buttress, with a town and trees in the valley below.
Description, scan 2
A close view of a wall built of rectangular stone blocks, with a circular window set in a carved stone surround and a squared buttress at the right. Beyond the edge of the wall, the land falls away to a town among dense trees, with pale sea haze along the horizon.

English, translated from the original record

Kloster (monastery), Vessberg 2:24: a building with brick and trees.