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 80 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 97Scan 80 of 95

Continued from p. 96

… with small chips of another kind of stone. Some putty or mortar may in these places not be detected. Most of these wedge-stones are of great interest. It turns out, namely, on closer investigation that they have been omt are shattered pieces of an earlier building structure. On the rock itself, between the enclosing walls and beneath the outer one, was found a dm-thick layer of such architectural fragments constituting the remains of Doric temple architecture in miniature. Several of the fragments had well-preserved painting (red and blue). This layer is found only closest to the western diazoma entrance . On the western half the outer enclosing wall is on both sides supported by solid layers of kougeí. This p ceases, however, west of the central axis (the longitudinal section), where instead the same thing applies to the inner enclosing wall. — In the manner described here the wall continues … continues

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