Field diary·DII:2b·1928

Milia, Soli and KythreaAlfred Westholm

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Handwritten in Swedish. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 16 of field diary DII:2b (Milia, Soli and Kythrea), handwritten in Swedish. The transcription and translation follow.

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

Page 15Scan 16 of 95

Continued from p. 14

… the Syrian bird-jug with every ? piece in situ (no. 61). Quite close to this, also on the floor, lay no. 62, and next to the coffin's end-stone (at the head) was found, roughly on the stone at the level of the stone's upper edge, the small cup 73. Further in to the left, c 20 cm above the floor, nos. 68 and 66 were found. — In the corresponding place on this side of the tomb lies another niche (2) of entirely the same character as no. 1. Here, in the upper disturbed layers, were found nos. 71 and 72. Roughly opposite the coffin but inside it the small Hyksos jug (no. 60) was recovered on the tomb bottom. The areas of the tomb that had not yet been excavated today were thus the coffin with the skeleton, the innermost left corner with niche 2. All finds were marked with numbered pegs, and the tomb was handed over to the Cypriot authorities. … continues

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