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 34 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 31Scan 34 of 95

Continued from p. 30

… the alternations between damp and dryness had been greater, were destroyed. In the vicinity of the geometric plates was found-namely a few extremely destroyed and probably disturbed bone-remains of a human. Immediately to the right of the door on the geometric level even an badly weathered skull could be made out. Just next to this was found lying next to the wall a bottle with geometric decoration and c. 0,50 m. further to the right also next to the wall and at exactly the same level as the bottle and the skull a bowl also geometric. Beneath these objects was again established the same layer sequence as previously described on repeated occasions inside the tomb. A tvär section of the layers immediately between next to the geometric bottle and the skull has the following appearance and measurements:

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