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 52 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 54Scan 52 of 147

Continued from p. 53

… level with the upper surface of the stones mentioned. Only One a careful study of the earth layers in places where these have not been disturbed in recent times and in connection with careful levelling of levels in the theatre elsewhere (diazoma, eastern eisodos etc.) can establish the original level of the floor. The levellings will be described later in connection with the excavation of the eastern eisodos. The layer sequence in the trench wall above the rock to which the excavation at this place has been limited is as follows Measurements taken approximately in the middle line of the eisodos:

1/0-1 m. - 0,95Dark pottery-bearing surface layer
2/1 -Lighter layer with small gypsum lumps Pottery
3/1,15Earth layer of the same colour without gypsum and pottery
4/1,25Dark coarse sand without pottery
5/1,40Light layer without gypsum with pottery
6/2,20Large stones and gypsum fragments.
7/3,05A sequence of finely varying sand layers

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