Field diary·DII:2a·1927–1928

Soli, the theatreAlfred Westholm

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Handwritten in Swedish. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 100 of field diary DII:2a (Soli, the theatre), handwritten in Swedish. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:2a, Public domain (CC0).

Page 102Scan 100 of 147

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… also a wall bounding the room to the west. This wall, however, is only c 30 cm high and has the character of a revetment wall to det the rock floor, which on the west side is somewhat higher. This too is cleared. Nearest the edge down to square A, is found, nearest the rock or separated from it only by a fine thin sand layer, a level consisting of a white gypsum mass which had already come to light earlier but was again covered over. It consists namely of innumerable small fragments of painted stucco, packed on top of one another without any visible order. This entire layer was collected in pieces for later dissolution. The earth which arose in this process (was loosened from the pieces) was sieved.

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