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 31 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 33Scan 31 of 147

Continued from p. 32

… the plank is prevented from being piling up, and earth from packing near the scene terrace which will be excavated later. The so-thus collapsed earth is drawn with shovels further down. – The large section is measured and pegs are set out at the edge up to 164 m. where the section was bounded this year. Under the layer of fill mentioned on page 32, without pottery (the clay-mass layer is found a layer (the same as higher up, Tr III) of with class - hell walls and pottery. The section will later be described metre by metre, when it has been entirely excavated.

19/20 The work in the theatre is being pushed more intensively. Around the whole cavea, closest to the modern terrace wall, which on the whole seems to follow the theatre's enclosing wall, a row of men with picks, who carefully scrape away the surface layer above the very loose rock. The earth is dragged or shovelled from there down to the filled orchestra space, from where it is later carried away with some 10 wheelbarrows carried … continues

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