Field photograph·JL003

Buildings in Lazania (J.L.3)

Stone houses with tiled roofs in the village of Lazania, with a stacked reed fence and a person in a doorway
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, JL003. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A village street in Lazania with rubble-stone houses under tiled roofs. A whitewashed gable with a small arched window rises behind, and a tall panel of stacked reeds or canes stands against one house. A figure stands in a dark doorway at the lower centre, and hills and trees fill the background.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Stone-walled village buildings with tiled and thatched roofs in Lazania, with a figure standing in a doorway
Description, scan 2
Rough stone houses with tiled and thatched roofs stand along a dirt lane in Lazania. A panel of woven brushwood fills the wall beside the house on the left, and a gabled building with an arched window rises behind. A figure stands in a low doorway at the lower centre, with a second figure partly visible at the right; trees and hills fill the background.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Cyprus Ethnology. J.L.3. Buildings in Lazania.

Swedish, as on the record

Cypern Etnologi. J.L.3