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 75 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 92Scan 75 of 95

Soli. Theatre.

The enclosure walls

That the two enclosure walls are built together, in one context, seems entirely clear despite the somewhat varying masonry method. Nor is there anything here that indicates several building periods. On the contrary, the layer sequence on the outer side and between the walls proves with great clarity that contemporaneity in the building. However, one can make out that the fill, at least in the middle, was first dumped up against the outer wall, and thereafter the hard concrete mass which at this place forms the bed for the inner wall was laid so that it partly covers the outer wall's nearest earth (see longitudinal section). Probably, though not clearly proven, in ancient times the space between the walls was filled with earth in different layers, all the way up under the spectator seats, as in the cavea … continues

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