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 7 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 6Scan 7 of 95

Continued from p. 3

… placed for drawing and photography.

Tomb 1.

1This tomb was found first and was plundered partly by the workmen (p. 4). Of the previously mentioned earth cone under the opening is removed and one half is taken up next to the hard, relatively dry clay, which seems to have been washed in with rainwater which later evaporated. Thus is namely explained the even surface. A closer examination of the clay also proves that the clay is layered in horizontal levels of varying hardnessness. This is established tätt at the chamber's right part when one enters. In the earth, which has collapsed under the opening a spindle whorl of pottery was found (no. 1) and immediately beneath this late - Cypriot sherds with old whitewashed broken surfaces. The left half of the "earth cone is kept on the left for the section drawing's sake. The whole right part of the tomb … continues

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