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 38 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 35Scan 38 of 95

Continued from p. 34

38.… In the layer some insignificant fragments of a skull (?) were found, as well as a few teeth of a young person. In the shaft fill otherwise only extremely insignificant finds of pottery were made, which were collected separately. – Close to the innermost wall of the shaft but on the actual tomb floor a fragment of a four-handled plate (38) was found. — The right half of the tomb is now cleared, so far and emptied, more or less, as far as the previously described skeleton with the accompanying burial vessels that have been uncovered. Since only only the lower half of the skeleton has been exposed, the lifting of the vessels and bones is postponed until the whole skeleton has come to light. Probably we have to do with the remains of two people, one larger, adult, lying across the tomb in a supine position (skel. 1) and a smaller, more fragmentary, do

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