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 29 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 29 of 135

Continued from scan 28

… which we found in the preliminary trial pit of 8/5. To orient myself I open a cross trench in an eastern direction which cuts the place where the peasant from Pera-chorio claims to have found the statues. As instruments for laying out a grid are lacking, the locality is for the time being called "Cross Trench 1".

no. 4.The well has a depth of 0.90-1.00 m. and contains homogeneous chavara. St. 3 sherds, all geometric. No charcoal remains or anything else indicating a cult pit. In the thrown-up earth a bronze finger ring was recovered.

23/5In the cross trench a great deal is found, indeed a pocket of loose and worked earth, which marks the find spot of the Pera-Choriotes find spot. Moreover, two pieces of statue bases came to light. The … continues

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