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 70 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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… belong the walls in Tvär-trench IV, which it seems the column in the Great Section-and the long wall in Tvär-trench I's east side, further a cross wall, which appears at the 14th metre, and other walls in the trench's continuation out towards the north slope. To the Archaic-Geometric layer belongs a complex of walls which is cut through by the trench at a lower level than the above-mentioned walls. To the Mycenaean layerno walls can yet be definitely attributed, but Mycenaean sherds occur numerously beneath the geometric-Archaic walls. All the walls are built of unhewn or roughly hewn stones without any other binding agent than clay. The upper walls have been built of sun-dried brick: brick pieces stand out clearly in the west section of the cross trench … continues

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