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Field diary·DII:1c·1928

Oura, Trachonas and Idalion

135 handwritten pages in Swedish, each shown beside a transcription and an English translation, with the drawings on 20 pages cut out beside the text.

Read the field diary135 pages · 15,386 words · 69 dated entries

DII:1c is a field notebook of the spring and summer of 1928, covering four pieces of work in sequence. The volume does not name its keeper. It opens with the Oura excavation (19–26 April 1928), a field in the Karpas near the sanctuary of Aphrodite Ourania, where the diary records a temenos wall, a row of statue bases and fragments of limestone sculpture, among them a male head with a laurel wreath and an Archaic hand. Göransson attributes this work to Erik Sjöqvist and notes that it was never published in the SCE volumes. Short sections follow on the built tomb at Trachonas (30 April–5 May), "the Karavostasi matter" at Karavostasi by Soli (16–19 May), and then Idalion: Vasilika, Ampilleri, and the western acropolis from 31 May to 18 July, with Tomb 1.

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From 29 June the Idalion pages become a find register, numbered to 892, with each object's grid square, levels and size. The back holds a workers' pay sheet by day. The text is in Swedish.

The page reader shows each page's scan beside our transcription and English translation. See also Idalion: the acropolis and tombs in the field and The Karpas.

Sources

  • Gjerstad, E., Lindros, J., Sjöqvist, E. and Westholm, A. 1934. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927–1931, vol. I. Stockholm, pp. 461–466 (Trachonas).
  • Gjerstad, E., Lindros, J., Sjöqvist, E. and Westholm, A. 1935. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927–1931, vol. II. Stockholm, pp. 460–641 (Idalion).
  • Göransson, K. 2012. "The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: The Cyprus collections in Stockholm and the Swedish excavations after the SCE", Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42, pp. 406–407 (Oura).

Dated entries

As written in the field diary, in page order

  1. 19 Apr 1928C: OURAscan 1
  2. 30 Apr 1928TRACHONASscan 1
  3. 16 May 1928The Karavostasi-matterscan 1
  4. 21 May 1928DALI (IDALION): Vasilikascan 1
  5. 28 May 1928DALI (IDALION): Ampilleriscan 1
  6. 31 May 1928DALI (IDALION): akropolenscan 1
  7. 29 Jun 1928scan 1
  8. 19 Nov 1928Ourap. 1
  9. 20 Apr 1928Ourascan 4
  10. 21 Apr 1928Ourap. 3
  11. 23 Apr 1928Ourascan 6
  12. 24 Apr 1928Ourascan 8
  13. 25 Apr 1928Ourascan 8
  14. 26 Apr 1928Ourap. 7
  15. 30 Apr 1928Trachonasscan 16
  16. 2 May 1928Ourap. 15
  17. 3 May 1928Ourascan 18
  18. 16 May 1928Karavostasip. 19
  19. 17 May 1928Ourascan 22
  20. 18 May 1928Ourap. 21
  21. 19 May 1928Ourap. 21
  22. 21 May 1928Dalip. 25
  23. 8 May 1928Dalip. 25
  24. 22 Aug 1928Ourascan 27
  25. 23 May 1928Ourascan 29
  26. 24 May 1928Ourascan 31
  27. 25 May 1928Ourap. 31
  28. 26 May 1928Ourap. 33
  29. 29 May 1928Ampillerip. 35
  30. 30 May 1928Ourascan 39
  31. 31 May 1928Akropolenp. 39
  32. 1 Jun 1928Ourap. 43
  33. 2 Jun 1928Ourascan 49
  34. 4 Jun 1928Ourascan 53
  35. 5 Jun 1928Ourap. 53
  36. 6 Jun 1928Ourascan 55
  37. 7 Jun 1928Ourascan 59
  38. 8 Jun 1928Ourascan 61
  39. 9 Jun 1928Ourap. 61
  40. 10 Jun 1928Ourap. 63
  41. 11 Jun 1928Ourap. 63
  42. 12 Jun 1928Ourap. 71
  43. 13 Jun 1928Ourap. 71
  44. 14 Jun 1928Ourap. 73
  45. 18 Jun 1928Ourascan 75
  46. 19 Jun 1928Ourascan 76
  47. 20 Jun 1928Ourascan 77
  48. 21 Jun 1928Ourascan 77
  49. 22 Jun 1928Ourascan 77
  50. 27 Jun 1928Ourascan 79
  51. 22 Jun 1928Ourap. 79
  52. 27 Jun 1928Ourap. 81
  53. 28 Jun 1928Ourap. 81
  54. 28 Jun 1928Ourap. 83
  55. 29 Jun 1928Ourascan 85
  56. 30 Jun 1928Ourap. 85
  57. 2 Jul 1928Ourascan 87
  58. 3 Jul 1928Ourascan 87
  59. 4 Jul 1928Ourascan 87
  60. 5 Nov 1928Ourap. 87
  61. 3 Jul 1928Dalip. 89
  62. 6 Jul 1928Ourascan 90
  63. 9 Apr 1928Ourascan 92
  64. 10 Jun 1928Ourap. 93
  65. 11 Jul 1928Ourascan 94
  66. 12 Jul 1928Ourascan 96
  67. 13 Jul 1928Ourascan 96
  68. 16 Jul 1928Ourascan 106
  69. 17 May 1928Ourascan 130

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:1c (Oura, Trachonas and Idalion, 1928).
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Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:1c, Oura, Trachonas and Idalion, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-1c (accessed [date]).
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@misc{sce-dii-1c, title = {{Field diary DII:1c: Oura, Trachonas and Idalion}}, year = {1928}, howpublished = {Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–1931. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:1c}, note = {transcription and English translation ancientcyprus.com, CC BY 4.0}, url = {https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-1c} }

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:1c (Oura, Trachonas and Idalion, 1928), p. 1.
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Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:1c, Oura, Trachonas and Idalion, 1928, p. 1 [scan 3]. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-1c/p/3 (accessed [date]).

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:1c (Oura, Trachonas and Idalion, 1928), p. 1, l. 2.
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Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:1c, Oura, Trachonas and Idalion, 1928, p. 1 [scan 3], line 2. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-1c/p/3#l2 (accessed [date]).