cyprus

Buried in the wall of an inconsequential stone building, unnoticed and unremarked for generations, is a large, roughly hewn, spherical stone. It looks out of place from all the rectangular stones surrounding it. The fabric of the building is old, though it has evidently been rebuilt at some indeterminate point in the past. Above the arched entrance door, a date of 1930 has been crudely carved into the stonework, yet the reconstructed building is evidently far older than this. Inside, typical of a number of the more affluent older palati (palace) style stone buildings in the Paphos region of western Cyprus, is a camara or large stone arch. Centrally located, it supports the ceiling beams. It was designed to overcome