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 35 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 35 of 135

II. Ampilleri.

28/5the seventh excavation site of the season is a cultivation terrace on the lowest part of the north slope of the Idalion acropolis, roughly along the so-called theatre's long axis. It is an almost level vineyard, where some c. 25 years ago stonecutters dug for cut stone, which they came upon in a wall they followed for some 10 metres at a depth of c. 1 m. In the course of this they found an intact and remarkably beautiful painted limestone kore, together with several smaller statuettes. From this digging there are still clear traces in the form of a ditch running in roughly a north-south direction, surrounded by banks of upcast earth. At the place which is said to be the find spot of the above-mentioned … continues

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