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 50 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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… length 11.6, found 24.0, w. 1.15, d. 1.45. under one of the slabs in the above-mentioned stone setting. It is Mycenaean and must have sat as a handle on a larger vessel. Like much of the other Mycenaean pottery, it shows traces of fire damage.

no. 52In the newly opened part of the trench-which is now staked out to 52 m. length, found at 38.35, w. 0.85, depth 0.40 a fine bronze arrowhead. Possible is that the so-called object find no. 47 is a modified and simplified form of the same weapon The rock rises again in this part of the section so that at the 36th metre it comes to the surface already at a depth of 0.75 m. while at the 26th metre the bottom is still not reached after more than 2 m. depth of digging. The previously mentioned stone-setting at this locality

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