Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Field photograph·Csn0345

Monastery building with brick vaulting

Ruined monastery building at Bellapais, with a row of pointed arches below a upper wall with small square openings
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn0345. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A ruined stone building seen from above, with a row of pointed arches in the foreground and a flat walkway behind them. Above the arches a long wall has small square openings and narrow projecting piers, and the top of the ruin is broken off at the right. Low shrubs and loose stone blocks lie in the courtyard below.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Ruined monastery building with a row of pointed arches and windowed walls, with bushes and fallen stone blocks in the foreground
Description, scan 2
Ruined walls of a monastery building seen from above, with a row of pointed arches and a gallery of arched openings in the middle ground. Small rectangular windows with projecting sills run along the upper wall, and a tall ruined wall rises at the right. Scattered fallen stone blocks, bushes and low walls lie in the foreground among the arches.

English, translated from the original record

Monastery building with brick vaulting.