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 4 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 4 of 135

Continued from p. 1

h. frånfixen (10)8.57… The Menos wall (so-called wall no. 1) has a breadth of over 2 m. During the clearing of it, between the stones Hellenistic pottery is found, as well as find no. 1 Male head, height 9.1. The hair is summarily rendered, at the nape by shallow incisions in a net pattern, and is adorned with a laurel wreath. The nape straight, the jaw area heavy. On the left shoulder a flap of the garment dress. Eyes and mouth barely visible. Right ear damaged. Hellenistic-Roman.

20/4Wall no. 1 is evidently Hellenistic. The wall-base rests in the earth at the level of a hard packed, gypsum- and chavara-containing layer. It is a floor stratum. This floor stratum is refound at a corresponding or somewhat sinking level along the whole of the Great Section.

a foot-deep layer of ash and burnt material beneath this floor stratum is found at the 10th metre of the section, evidently a votive pit. The sherds are black and hard to identify, but a couple of geometric ones can be established. The burnt layer continues … continues

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