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 51 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 48Scan 51 of 95

22 13 vessels.23 Two faience beads / 24 4 stone beads25 Bronze ring / 26 Fragment of bronze-27 Stone bead [?ringa stone bead (13). In the earth beneath this layer the finds in this square become extremely sparse. The earth fill evidently comes from the door inward / 28 2 stone beads i sållet] slimed clay, which has settled in largely horizontal levels (see drawing). In the deep excavation of square C there comes into view, quite close to D E and F, a stone bench (see drawing) which runs in an arc from the door to a rock pilaster, which projects from the innermost wall between D and G. The bench consists of edge-set slabs with flat stones lying above them, forming a shoring for the at this point relatively loose rock. The slabs are cleared and square C is further deepened in front of the door. At the level c. 1,05-1,20 a layer is found containing a further number of vessels. They lie immediately above a disturbed layer (the Bottom layer), which in the vicinity … continues

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