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 56 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 55Scan 56 of 135

no. 65stone mortar length 7.0,
no. 66some pieces of mother-of-pearl,
no. 67a gilded silver button in rosette form
diam [in the sieve],
no. 68-71Three bronze rings and a bronze stone likewise
in the sieve.
no. 72a damaged stone bead 1.10, w. 0.90, d. 0.45
and next to it a double-
no. 73conical stone button diam 1.8

This concerns the surface finds in Trench I, in section. In I the following observations were made. In the rock, cut-out round hollows to a depth of 0.50-0.75 m, which should probably be regarded as bothroi, occur at regular intervals, namely at 52, 59, 65. The rock lies at roughly 1 m. level, constant, though with a tendency to sink toward about the 80_nde_ metre, where it again rises. The walls that are present Note: I rendered the anchors so that each sits before the words starting its line, but the source line breaks did not align cleanly with a single sentence-level flow, so a few anchors fall mid-phrase where the Swedish did. … continues

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