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 27 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 27 of 135

no. 1The pottery of the surface layer is geometric, archaic and later, and separate terracotta fragments of archaic figurines and rider figures. Their type is high archaic and excellent. At the 6th metre a very beautiful archaic terracotta head of a bearded man with plaited hair and a turban-like headdress is found. Remarkable and promising is the occurrence of scattered fragments of terracotta statues of super-natural size: an ear, a piece of an upper arm etc. At a depth of 1.00 - 1.10 lies a floor level of chavara, which becomes ever harder and after a foot's thickness becomes completely sterile and passes into loose rock. Deeper it thus did not go.

22/8In the bottom level, scattered sherds of L.C. (white slip) are found, together with … continues

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