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 124 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).

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… time. The site is entirely untouched, and what lies on the surface has come up during ploughing. A spring rises on the area itself, which is an extensive field on three cultivation terraces. On the surface lie some 10 larger statues, all archaic except one, which is Hellenistic. A seated statue and a canonical kore, two statues with heads. The best conceivable excavation site with a great deal of earth.

Aijos Simion Xalona geometric necropolis 1 Eng. mile east of Neta along the road to Aijos Simion. Late geometric period. Aijos Simion Pyrodes geometric necropolis 1 ½ Eng. miles east of Neta along the road to Aijos Simion, from the same period as Xalona. Katalimata, an extensive area west of Aijos Simion with Hellenistic and Roman tombs.

Gjallinoporni. In the village itself, at scattered places, among other things under the main café, the so-called Casino, there are numerous tombs. They are all

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