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 48 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 58Scan 48 of 147

Table continued from p. 49

211,05Smaller angular stones and gypsum mortar-
22fragment.
221,10Gypsum plaster built onto the rock.
23– – –Below this the solid rock.

This section taken at a suitable, but arbitrary, spot; the 0-point taken on the highest part of the earth terrace here. On the whole the layers in this way probably run horizontally through the whole earth terrace, of course with some minor deviations. The horizontal stratification very clear to the eye. The earth terrace described here ends inward at the theatre by a wall now removed, which is traced on the rock itself in the form of remaining gypsum mortar. Here evidently a wall c. 0,95 m thick has been laid evidently also as a substructure to a floor level at a higher indeterminate level and towards the theatre forming a wall, a termination. above described earth terrace. The cross wall in the eisodos has very … continues

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