Field diary·DII:1c·1928

Oura, Trachonas and Idalion

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Handwritten in Swedish. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 10 of field diary DII:1c (Oura, Trachonas and Idalion), handwritten in Swedish. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:1c, Public domain (CC0).

Unnumbered pageScan 10 of 135

Continued from p. 7

… nar The section is drawn from 4th - 18th metre The following is observed: Below wall 1 at the 4th metre the layers are - the sequence undisturbed:

1)A thin layer of worked earth

2)Unworked clay earth

3)Hard floor layer mixed with chavra

4)Sand-mixed clay

5)Sand

This stratification is constant until the 7th metre, where the floor stratum holds a stone accumulation which appears to be a wall, ending abruptly at the section wall.

At the 8th metre the section is cut by a partly collapsed wall, and below this the stratification begins that was recorded on 23/4.

At 12-13 metres the burnt layer ends right under the second row of statue bases, one of which projects into the section. At the 16:de metre it sinks so far … continues

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain