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 18 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 18 of 135

Continued from p. 15

… two steatopygous figures facing each other in a dance. The left figure is a demon of the same type as the Etruscan Fufluns and Tuschulka figures; the other is a naked male figure. The relief is low and without a frame, and c. 0.5 m. high. Stylistically it must be placed in the Archaic period, rather early than late. The sherd material in the dromos is all earlier than this. The tomb has thus been in use for a long time.

The trenches elsewhere are negative, and no further tomb within the area is there with the greatest certainty. The wall that cuts trench 1 is roughly built and has certainly never been visible in the installation, but was a substructure for the tumulus. That the reinforcements here are so heavy is because the rock slopes steeply.

3-5/5 The tomb is cleared and the section is drawn. Inside the chamber, in recent times, … continues

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