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 41 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 41 of 135

Continued from p. 39

no. 1no. 2no. 3.… ly manner according to their relation to the 0-line. The pottery in the surface layer is mixeded. There are a few L.H. III some geometric but mainly archaic and classical. Besides numerous bronze fragments and iron pieces. And behold, the Lord has helped me. After a half-hour's work my first stray find, namely a large scara- be of amethyst length 2.2 cm. Fram-the representation is a sphinx with dove-head and above it a flying bird. The work is exquisite. A truly distinguished object, probably Ptolemaic. Find spot: 5.80, w. 1.24, depth 0.42 In the surface layer is found at 4.10 w. 1.10 a badly damaged by the plough bronze- bowl, ribbed and with a ring handle and in the earth heaps at the 4th metre a perforated silverbronze sheet

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