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 61 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 58Scan 61 of 95

Continued from p. 57

H2… layers (see the cross-section). This latter bone layer lies also in roughly the same level as the floor of the stone benches. Above it comes further silted-up clay and above that, in later times, disturbed loose earth with shorter intermixed layers of rock debris (chavara). In the uppermost disturbed layer there are also found large pieces of the solid rock which have come loose from the roof and fallen down into the earth fill. Corresponding broken pieces are also established in the roof in at least two places. — Square G is begun. Here too the earth is for the most part worked through. The consistency is namely completely the same as described in squares A, E and F. In the loose fill there is found a 37,5 cm long bronze knife (H2) c 5 cm above the floor of the stone bench. Otherwise nothing was found beyond a quantity of smashed vessels, among them pieces of Cypriot wheel-made … continues

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