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 58 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 55Scan 58 of 95

3940neither on the floor in square C nor elsewhere. Below the stone bench in square A some skeletal remains were found, which however did not lie directly on the floor as on the other side (see the drawing's levelling figures!) Likewise at no great distance from the base level, a jug (white painted) was found, almost entirely under these disordered skeletal remains, height --- (39), lying on its side close to the stone bench. Close to the skeletal remains, and at the same level as these, a bronze finger ring was found (40). On the floor level itself no find was made apart from some extremely badly destroyed bone remains. These too occur sparsely. Hereby square A is excavated. - The large cross-section is drawn. During the clearing of this a base-ring vessel, height was brought up in the very edge of the section, in a position … continues

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