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

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

Unnumbered pageScan 106 of 147

Obs!At this depth the excavation is limited until further. The trench is widened in all directions from the ashlar wall and this is followed to the east. In doing so there is found 1,75 m from the first column base a completely mot svaran similar standing one at the corresponding place on the wall. Opposite this the stone facing of the wall (peribolos) and the floor are exposed right up to the wall. In the trench which has now been excavated there was found on the floor-level or slightly above it three joining fragments of an inscription which was later recut into a round column base

15/3Also found here are two fragments of a well-cut limestone moulding from a larger building. The fragments were taken up å 0,35 m above the floor and 1 metre due north of column-base 1. As the trench is further widened along the floor level, there emerges in the trench wall a broken kround column of white marble, diameter at this point 0,52 m. and next to … continues

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