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 24 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 24 of 135

All of them lie well grouped and at a level of 0.35 - 0.50 above the temple-base. Southward in the trench, where the column base was found yesterday, is one corner of the foundation, and the column has been a corner column. Apparently the temple was not a peripteros. What was found is probably the opisthodomos. Noteworthy is the temple's orientation north-south.

Along the whole trench there lies a quantity of fragments of late Corinthian capitals.

The structure appears to be symmetrical as a stepped elevation corresponding to the so-called opisthodomos emerges also on the northern short side The structure thus becomes a pseudo-peripteros with pronaos and opisthodos. It is also possible that the whole structure is merely the pronaos of a colossal … continues

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