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 71 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 73Scan 71 of 147

Continued from p. 72

… is being cleared under great difficulties both in depth and down towards the eastern corner of the stage. Here a somewhat deeper trace of gypsum mortar is found, which evidently formed a horizontal level in the rimpe. The part that is removed by this excavation method consists of stones bonded together with a hard clay. Although the stones h are completely unworked, the whole has the character of masonry. This idea gradually becomes certainty. The excavation method is not changed on that account, however, since only through a consistent pursuit of reasoning and method can one come to clarity, for at the surface layers nothing can be established with certainty iaktt but rather deeper down. C. --- m from the eisodos (the facing wall.) … continues

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