Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Field photograph·JL002

Ethnology, Cyprus. JL.2.

Village of low houses clustered on a dry hillside, with trees in the foreground and a mountain behind.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, JL002. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A village of low houses with pitched and flat roofs is clustered on a dry hillside. Trees and shrubs fill the foreground, and a bare, steep slope rises behind the village under a pale, empty sky.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Hillside village of closely built flat-roofed houses with trees in the foreground, seen from below.
Description, scan 2
A village of low, closely packed houses with flat or pitched roofs spreads across a slope in the middle distance. Behind it a dry, bare hillside rises to the right, with scattered shrubs and a few trees. In the foreground, dense trees and bushes fill the lower slope, and a tall tree stands at the left of centre.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Cyprus Ethnology. JL.2.

Swedish, as on the record

Cypern Etnologi. JL.2.