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 25 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 27Scan 25 of 147

13/10On terrace III a trench 2 m wide is opened down towards the sea. The earth is scraped away here up to the solid bedrock lying close by. The division into squares will be decided somewhat later, when an excavation on terrace II and possibly also on Ter. I is necessary. The pottery was collected from the surface layer with three designations Ter. III u(pper); m(iddle); l(ower). This is only a provisional arrangement. In the upper part of the trench a wall appears obliquely from above. The wall, which is built of squared blocks, shall be described in more detail later when it is fully excavated. For the time being it is left to its fate. A few metres below this wall there is found, cut into the rock, a hollow, which at first resembled a dromos in a rock tomb but which, on full excavation, proved to be an irregular quadrilateral of the following dimensions:

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