Field photograph·Csn0903·1927–1931
The sea gate, Famagusta
Description
A photograph of a tall stone fortification wall with crenellated towers, pierced by an arched passage closed by a wooden lattice gate. At the right edge, a weathered stone lion sits on a low plinth against a plain wall, and the ground in front is bare earth with some stones. Below the photograph is a printed text panel and a handwritten number label.
English, as on the record
THE SEA GATE, FAMAGUSTA Reno Wideson "This is a very faire strong holde, and the strongest and greatest in the Island. The walles are faire new, and strongly rampired with four principal bulwarkes, and betweene them turrions, responding one to another. These walles did the Venetians make. They have also on the haven side of it a Castle, and the haven is chained." John Locke-1533 (Voyage to Jerusalem)
English, as on the record
THE SEA GATE, FAMAGUSTA Reno Wideson "This is a very faire strong holde, and the strongest and greatest in the Island. The walles are faire new, and strongly rampired with four principal bulwarkes, and betweene them turrions, responding one to another. These walles did the Venetians make. They have also on the haven side of it a Castle, and the haven is chained." John Locke-1533 (Voyage to Jerusalem)