Field photograph·JL124

Ethnology photograph from Lazania, J.L. 124

View of the village of Lazania on a hillside, with flat-roofed houses clustered on the slope and trees in the foreground.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, JL124. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A wide view across a valley to a village of houses with flat or low-pitched roofs, clustered on the slope below a steep, sparsely wooded hill. Terraced ground climbs the hillside, and dense shrubs and trees fill the rocky foreground on both sides.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Village of Lazania with flat-roofed houses clustered on a terraced hillside, seen from a rocky slope with trees
Description, scan 2
A cluster of low, flat-roofed stone and mud-brick houses sits in a valley below a steep, terraced hillside dotted with shrubs and small trees. Bushes and rocks fill the foreground, and a tree on the right frames the view. No people are visible.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Cyprus Ethnology. J.L. 124.

Swedish, as on the record

Cypern Etnologi. J.L. 124.