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 39 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 39 of 135

30/5At a level 0.60 below the top of wall 2 lies a floor of slabs joined with gypsum and potsherds. It is damaged by the fallen building material and ends entirely naturally where the stone-seekers have broken through it.

the great substructure terrace continues up to the foot of wall 1, which thus rests on it.

To obtain preliminary clarity about what wall 2 is and where it goes, a smaller trench is opened south of it.

There is, however, nothing there. On the whole there is no reason to continue, and thus this chapter is at an end. What we have excavated appears to be parts of some monumental entrance.

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