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 40 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).

Page 39Scan 40 of 135

III. Akropolen.

31/5The new excavation site – no. 8 in the order – requires no closer description. It is a height dominating the town area, on the north side of which a hemicyclic depression marks a theatre. The shape of the summit plateau is conditioned by this and has therefore a semicircular cutting in the middle, which divides it into two parts: the northern and the southern. The plateau is the place of the finds of the famous silver shields, but has since then been planed and levelled. A long trench is laid through the southern half of the plateau in its diagonal direction. It is called Section I. It is measured in metres and the find designations are placed on the van- … continues

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