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 83 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 127Scan 83 of 95

Kythrea,

From Kythrea, finds of stone and flint implements have been reported to the museum, a matter that the expedition has known about for months. The find-spot lies in the topotesia of Ajios Dimitrianos, c 300 m west of the so-called Septimius field, next to the small potamos, which separates the topotesia Aj. Dimitrianos from Lakkovounara, more precisely in plot 78, which on the land register office's map is marked as Hali-land. The finds can be localised to an extent from the said river to the road that leads up to the topotesia Kamilostrada. Geographically the find-spot (the settlement) lies a few hundred metres from the true beginning of the plain, on a slope of rain-floods extremely cut up by the rain floods. The rock itself comes almost everywhere to the surface. It consists of very loose, obliquely bedded greenish-black konnos- rock (κόννος). The soil which here and … continues

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