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 43 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 40Scan 43 of 95

Continued from p. 39

… stands. Hereafter the remaining inner western 4th part of the tomb is dug in thin levels so that the upper parts of skeleton 1 may not be damaged. High up in the undisturbed layers a biconical stone bead is found

(58) and a stamp-decorated pottery-58
cylinder (59). Still further in, probably59

directly above skel 1, is found in the den-

level (0,65) a Va bronze sword<s>/ bronze nail (60).60
To judge from everything the skeletal remains shouldV hilt of
be glimpsed immediately below this level.a bronze sword

Apparently we have here the continuation of the layer that contained the small bronzes on the right side of the tomb. The same peculiar situation is established also here: that the heavy bronzes, which, if they were deposited in connection with the skeletons or at least at the level of these, should have sunk to the bottom, now instead are found immediately above the skeleton-bearing bottom layer. Whether the bronzes were at all deposited in connection with the skeletons (1 or 2) … continues

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