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 8 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 7Scan 8 of 95

Continued from p. 6

… excavated without any find being worth noting. The tomb appears to have been thoroughly disturbed, which is also shown by the investigations in the other half.

13/2As all the tombs up on this plateau show similar signs of destruction, it is decided that the excavation is to be moved down to a part of the necropolis, which lies in the direction of the Byzantine church Hagios Giorgos, where some larger dromoi have evidently been exposed to tomb robbers, but since the chamber proved to be full of earth, they were again left. Two dromoi are cleared here for transporting out the earth in the chamber. These tombs are designated 9 and 10.

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