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 55 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 52Scan 55 of 95

Continued from p. 51

… all of them slightly above the floor:

Black slip jugheight 8,4 cm3131
Base ring jug” height 12 cm3232
Bottle (fragm.) (Gods?)” height 10 cm.3333

Even here most of the earth appeared to have been searched through. However, the lower part of a child(?) skeleton was prepared here with great difficulty and its position was inked in. Square F is concluded, and A is begun, then the longitudinal section, which has been determined to the boundary between A and C; B and D have been drawn. The uppermost disturbed earth layers are removed up to square B and the pottery is collected from here separately. Also on this side of the tomb's central axis a similar stone bench is found as in squares E-F. In the event that an undisturbed layer nearest the stone bench (the floor) should exist, the excavation is stopped at a level c. 15-20 cm above the floor. This layer is excavated in a combined- … continues

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