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Field diary·DII:2b·1928

Milia, Soli and Kythrea

Kept by Alfred Westholm

95 handwritten pages in Swedish, each shown beside a transcription and an English translation, with the drawings on 3 pages cut out beside the text.

Read the field diary95 pages · 11,611 words · 11 dated entries

DII:2b holds three short pieces of work by Alfred Westholm, whose name is on the cover. The first and longest is the diary he kept during the excavation of the Late Bronze Age cemetery at Milia, north-west of Famagusta, from 9 February to 3 March 1928. The cover adds "Μηλιά (not Ayios Iakovos)"; the expedition also dug a cemetery called Melia at Ayios Iakovos. Westholm later published four of the Milia tombs in the Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine, vol. 8.

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The Milia entries explain that tombs with Mycenaean and Phoenician vessels prompted the work, then describe trial holes, looted dromoi and tombs 1, 10, 11 and 13 one by one: sections drawn, disturbed upper layers removed, skeletons identified (one a small, hardly grown woman laid with a child), and numbered find lists of Base-ring, Black Slip and painted vessels with heights. Two shorter sections follow: a description of the enclosure walls of the theatre at Soli, and of the Neolithic settlement at Kythrea, its houses and the order of its strata. The text is in Swedish.

The page reader shows each page's scan beside our transcription and English translation. See also Milia and Kythrea.

Sources

  • Göransson, K. 2012. "The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: The Cyprus collections in Stockholm and the Swedish excavations after the SCE", Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42, p. 406.
  • Gjerstad, E., Lindros, J., Sjöqvist, E. and Westholm, A. 1934. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927–1931, vol. I. Stockholm, pp. 277–301 (Kythrea).

Dated entries

As written in the field diary, in page order

  1. 9 Feb 1928MILEAscan 1
  2. 9 Feb 1928Miliap. 2
  3. 10 Feb 1928Miliap. 3
  4. 13 Feb 1928Miliap. 7
  5. 13 Feb 1928Miliascan 9
  6. 14 Feb 1928Miliascan 9
  7. 15 Feb 1928Miliascan 9
  8. 16 Feb 1928Mileascan 12
  9. 17 Feb 1928Mileap. 12
  10. 18 Feb 1928Mileap. 16
  11. 19 Feb 1928Mileap. 16

Pages

Scan order; the field diary’s own page numbers where it has them

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The whole diary

Short
Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:2b (Milia, Soli and Kythrea, 1928).
Full
Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:2b, Milia, Soli and Kythrea, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-2b (accessed [date]).
BibTeX
@misc{sce-dii-2b, author = {Alfred Westholm}, title = {{Field diary DII:2b: Milia, Soli and Kythrea}}, year = {1928}, howpublished = {Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–1931. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:2b}, note = {transcription and English translation ancientcyprus.com, CC BY 4.0}, url = {https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-2b} }

A page

Short
Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:2b (Milia, Soli and Kythrea, 1928), p. 2.
Full
Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:2b, Milia, Soli and Kythrea, 1928, p. 2 [scan 3]. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-2b/p/3 (accessed [date]).

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Short
Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:2b (Milia, Soli and Kythrea, 1928), p. 2, l. 2.
Full
Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:2b, Milia, Soli and Kythrea, 1928, p. 2 [scan 3], line 2. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-2b/p/3#l2 (accessed [date]).