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 59 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 59 of 135

no. 82no. 83no. 84no. 857/6At the other end of the excavation area a new, broad trench, Cross-trench III, is laid out. It is laid westward from Section I in the hypothetical extension of wall 6. In Cross-trench II a bronze coin with a horse on it was found at a depth of 0.30 along the slope to the "theatre", and in Section I a half-worked hemispherical stone [agate?] was found, which appears to be intended as a signet but was never finished. A lead weight set in a bronze- sleeve lies in Cross-trench I at a depth of c. 0.90, and at 0.40 a geometric pyxis First let a number of finds be recorded:

no. 86an arrowhead, Cross-trench III surface layer
no. 87a double-conical stone button, Section I: 79, depth 2.10
no. 88a stone bead Section I: 79 depth 1.90
no. 89a bronze ring — " — : 78.5 depth 0.40
no. 90a silver ring Cross-trench I, 5 surface layer.

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