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

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

Unnumbered pageScan 9 of 147

Continued from p. 9

5678… but evidently at an older, lower level (The pottery from the various walls has been collected separately) Inside the angle of the previously mentioned wall corner in square 4 a column drum stands isolated in an upright position. In square Diameter c. 50 cm. In square 5 extends a 75 cm thick wall of unworked stones between the south trench wall up to the above-mentioned longitudinal wall. In square 6 the previously mentioned (4/10) square blocks. In square 7 there is on the north side of the aforementioned longitudinal wall a quantity of stones, which owing to the small area cannot yet be determined. In the western part of square 8 runs a cm thick wall across the whole trench and in the eastern part of the same square the above-mentioned (5/10) marble floor begins, which in places has collapsed (see photograph) extends into square 12 filling the the whole of the upcut trench surface in this area. The slabs are c. 45-50 cm broad, partly rectangular and partly square. The stone is of two kinds: 1) chalk-white marble, which splits easily; 2) grey somewhat firmer limestone. These latter slabs are c. 4 cm thick. The squares … continues

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