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 122 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 122 of 147

Here a very broad wall is being uncovered, laid partly of large limestone blocks, partly of unhewn comparatively small stones, all on the outer side coated with gypsum. The wall seems in some way to be connected with the nearby city wall. In the trench called Pezoullia trial trench 3, there also appear a couple of other walls of a considerably weaker character. The earth contains glass and Roman pottery. As the trench seems to be without interest, it is photographed and backfilled.

The great wall had been exposed for c 4 m in length. Its breadth not fully determined, since in that case the neighbouring vicker field would have had to be needlessly destroyed. — The deep excavation in trial trench 2 proves to be of no interest. The same late sherds are found both under the floor level and above it. No walls emerge. The excavation is broken off at over 2 m depth without the rock having been reached.

Work force at Pezoullia is moved up to terrace II I.

Here renewed, though as good as fruitless, searches are undertaken for the archaic … continues

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