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 17 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 16Scan 17 of 95

Continued from p. 15

… police custody during the night.

18/2At the first sight of the tomb this day one saw that thieves and tomb robbers during the night thoroughly searched and destroyed the whole contents of the tomb. To search reconstruct the original position of the objects was futile. In the earth heaps that lay where the tomb chest had stood was found an earring of bronze (no. 81) together with some other broken bronze pieces (79;80) The tomb is cleared swept photographed and drawn. Trip to the police in Levkoniko and Famagusta.

19/2Trip to Akanthou, Hagios Jacobos Synkrasi and other places. During the day the police carried out a house-search in Mileá and at one of the thieves' houses found 12 vessels, among them the foot of a Mycenaean beaker. … continues

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