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 77 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 94Scan 77 of 95

The outer surrounding wall's beginning on the western side can clearly be fixed to a line flush with the inner proskenion-wall, and the wall's termination on the eastern side is established at exactly the corresponding place. In both these places the wall evidently was once considerably high and of course provided with facade decoration. The outer surrounding wall thus marks, at these places, the cavea's termination outward. The wall is described from the western side to the eastern. At the wall termination mentioned, the wall-construction is also considerably firmer than elsewhere in the wall and laid of huge gypsum-set, squared limestones, resting at the very bottom on the rock itself. These well-dressed stones have however been to a large extent torn away later. The outer face of the wall is coated with gypsum plaster. Closest to the rock the lowest levels are observed to have slightly differing directions up to the western eisodos. In the earth closest … continues

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