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

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

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… the temple's continuation to the north and west. No further stones or wall remains are found. A few very insignificant gypsum fragments and small light brown lumps of clay suggest that the walls once extended further than the now nu preserved stones indicate. Nor can one locate the depression in the rock where the walls had been sunk, which was earlier described alongside the preserved walls. As the gypsum fragments cease entirely close to the walls, and as no signs or encouraging omens can be observed outside this part, the work is concluded here too. — Gloomy and dejected, sustained only by the leader's optimistic view of things, the workmen are sent to a trial trench east of the theatre.

24/3This has its place on the high-lying peculiar terrace, which lies east of the theatre's enclosure walls. At this place no one has heard of any find of any kind having been made, nor that a roadworker or his ephorate ever … continues

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