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 134 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 134 of 147

31/3The middle large room was excavated first, after the dromos and stomion had been cleared. Square F: The gravelly rock layer described above continued all the way down to the bottom. Here there began a only fragmentary bottom covering layer, c 1 cm thick, which extended higher up in the middle room Square C: where the dark bottom layer was somewhat better preserved and could be followed across almost the whole surface of the square. The pottery above this layer was, as over the whole tomb, mixed. Regarding finds in square C and other squares, see the find list later.

Square A consists of a room, which once had been covered with a now partly collapsed vault barrel vault. Towards C the room is bounded by a c. 0,80 m high gypsum-plastered wall which upward ends at level with the springing of the vault. The room has previously entirely been gypsum- … continues

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