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 36 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).

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29/5… statue I cut the old ditch at right angles with a broad trench which is called Trial trench I. The earth is loose in its consistency and partly clearly worked, and in its composition strongly mixed with stone and sand, along with the white tuff-like chavara of which the bedrock here consists. The sherd material is so far [- c. 80] very scanty and consists of archaic and classical. Two pieces Attic sherds; otherwise red bucchero and other specimens of sub-geometric pottery At a depth of 160 large poros blocks, which lie in situ, at the surface They are joined together with gypsum, where they do not lie immediately next to each other. They form a floor which extends over most of the trench. In its eastern part the floor is nevertheless broken up by … continues

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