Field photograph·Csn3233

Village courtyard with animals, people and stairs

Village courtyard with a donkey, an animal at a container, people and stone stairs along a wall — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn3233. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A paved courtyard shaded by a tree, with a large stone basin in the foreground and a wooden barrel beside it. A person bends over the barrel at left, while a pale animal feeds from a container nearby and a dark bird pecks on the ground. On the right, a donkey stands near a second person by stone stairs rising along a wall.

English, as on the record

VILLAGE COURTYARD. "Here children grow up and are nourished under the shade of their paternal habitation… among those objects which received their first smiles and directed their earliest steps." Abbe Mariti-1767 (Travels through Cyprus: Syria etc.) P. Constantinides

English, as on the record