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 46 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 43Scan 46 of 95

Continued from p. 42

… lying on its back probably in the same direction as Skel 1. It is evident that we here have to deal with a number of different burials with different tomb vessels and groups of such. Of great interest is then an investigation which whether the mutual age of the different tombs can be determined or at least which skeletons are the older and which are the younger. The skeletons are as follows:

Skel 1. In the innermost part of the tomb lying in the transverse direction of the tomb. The skeleton's upper part badly damaged. To this burial undoubtedly belong the vessels 22, 23, 25, 39 and a number of bronzes (on these see elsewhere) Whether the vessels that lie between skel 1 and 2 belong to the one or the other skeleton may be left unsaid.

Skel 2 Extremely fragmentary, appears to have had the same direction as skel 1 cont. p. 52

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