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

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

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The earth in this hollow 1 was uniform right down to the base and for the most part consisted of Hellenistic-Roman pottery of various kinds, of differing character. The vessels were evidently already smashed and fragmentary when they were deposited. At hollow 1 the loose rock comes up to less than 0,50 m. depth. The rock is cleared and scraped down in the direction of the trench. C. 1,50 m below hollow 1 was found 2 small depressions in the rock of indetermindablet kind, c 0,20 m in diam and 0,15 m deep. Something more than 5 m below these depressions in the rock, the rock is abruptly cut off and a notch c. 1 m broad. and The depth is not yet established. The earth here too, as far as I can see, is uniform all the way down and contains a very large quantity of pottery of roughly the same types as in hollow 1. In the longitudinal section the trench looks like this:

Longitudinal section of bedrock with cut depression and stone wall
DrawingLongitudinal section of bedrock with cut depression and stone wall

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