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 9 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).

Unnumbered pageScan 9 of 95

[margin top: 13 Monday 14 Tuesday 15 Wednesday]

Tomb 10.

13/2Rain (work in Nicosia)

14/2Trip to the area of Achyritou, Famagusta, Salamis, Gypsou

15/2Trip to Lapathos, Levkoniko, and others.

The preliminary work in tomb 10 had been cleared away during the preceding days. Thus the dromos had been dug down to a ledge suitable for the work, and a part of the uppermost earth, recently disturbed by robbers , had been removed. In order to investigate how deep these plunderings had extended into the almost entirely filled tomb, a square trench was dug down in the innermost right-hand part. Here a quantity of sherds was found in the upper filling, and deeper down, probably quite close to or on the bottom, a painted Syrian jug (no. 42), a painted cup (no. 20), the upper part of a Mycenaean goblet (no. 22), immediately beside these pots on the tomb floor, a … continues

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