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 9 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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Stratum contains, apart from charcoal and ash remains, a small number of fragments of geometric and early archaic terracotta figurines: horses, riders and small statuettes. Besides these, remains of burnt bone.

26/4The section is extended 4 m. so that it is now in its entirety 24 m. long. On the surface itself the earth is of course disturbed by the plough but otherwise undisturbed. The surface layer contains Hellenistic pottery and small statue fragments In squares A 8-10:1-2 a further row of statue bases is laid bare parallel with and east of (behind) the first The section from the 6th to the 8th metre is levelled in and the following stratification is established. At the 6th metre the earth is undisturbed right up to the surface, so that the preceding layer 1 falls away but it begins at the 7th metre and continues through the section. Likewise at the 7th metre the burnt layer begins, though thin. Above this, in the floor stratum, lie a few ste- … continues

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