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 31 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 28Scan 31 of 95

Continued from p. 27

… clear darkening in the earth, which may indicate that we have here the Late Cypriot layer, as previously mentioned. The vessels are:

Hemispherical jugheight 12,5(22)22
Painted bowl with handlediam 17(23)23
Plain bowl with handle (fragm.)diam 12(24)24.
Plain bowl with handlediam 8,5(25)25.

26.272829Immediately under no. 23 was found a bronze pin length 6 cm (26) on the rock itself. The position of the pin is probably not the original, since the earth possibly at this very point has been disturbed. On the tomb floor next to the section line was found the tip of a bronze knife (27). In the near-vicinity of the other bronze knife (21) also immediately on the tomb floor lay a faience bead (28). In the earth outside the tomb apparently from the base layer in the right half of the tomb, however, was found a stonebead (29). – Niche 1 is excavated. Earth-layers here were exactly the same as.

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