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Field photograph·JL091

Buildings and trees in Nicosia

Two-storey building with a timber upper floor of patterned panels, palm trees and a mud-brick annexe beside it, in Nicosia
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, JL091. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A two-storey building stands in a sandy courtyard, its upper floor framed in timber with patterned panels between windows and a tiled roof. Beside it is a low mud-brick annexe with a wooden door, and a tall palm and other trees rise behind. Wooden posts and an A-frame stand on the ground, and a tree branch hangs across the top right corner.

Other scans of this record (2)

  • Upper wooden storey with lattice-patterned panels on a mud-brick building, with palm trees, in Nicosia
  • Two-storey house with a decorated timber upper balcony and a mud-brick building beside it, with palm trees behind, in Nicosia.
Description, scan 2
A mud-brick building with a projecting upper storey whose wooden front is divided into panels with a lattice-like pattern, under a tiled roof. Palm trees and a leafy tree rise behind it. To the right stands a lower mud-brick building with a wooden double door, and a low wooden trestle and upright posts strung with wire stand on the sandy courtyard in front.
Description, scan 3
A two-storey building with a projecting upper room whose wooden frame is decorated with panels of carved or inlaid pattern, set above a plain rendered lower wall with an arched doorway at left. To the right stands a low single-storey mud-brick building with a tiled roof and a wooden door, and tall palm trees rise behind. Wooden stakes and a rope fence the open dusty ground in the foreground.

English, translated from the original record

Buildings and trees in Nicosia, with objects visible.