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 25 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 23Scan 25 of 95

Tomb 11.

A robbers' hole in the dromos made a way through the almost completely destroyed door packing to the tomb chamber, whose earth fill extended c 40-50 cm from the roof. To the right, obliquely forward, the upper part of a niche was visible. Even in recent times the tomb had evidently been visited by plunderers, whose work, at least in the inner parts, had not reached very deep Roughly along the central axis a line is laid out, which was determined as the longitudinal section line, at the same time as this line forms the boundary for the find collection in the two halves of the tomb. The right half is excavated first, while the left is for the time being left completely untouched. The pottery is collected in levels of c 20 cm. x)

x) In the continued excavation a more natural layering is followed in the pottery collection.

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