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 93 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 136Scan 93 of 95

I A, II A and III C contemporary, and I B, II B and III D roughly contemporary. Between I B and the floor under IV B there is, however, a floor IV A, which shows that a considerable time must have elapsed between IV B and I A, representing the most important find strata within the respective lower and higher levels. House V, as was previously demonstrated, is typologically placed between these periods; House V should therefore be associated with the period I B – IV A. Younger than the other strata III B and III A appear to be, if III C is contemporary with I A and II A. A separation of older and younger periods is thus possible on stratigraphic and also architectural-typological grounds. The boundaries between the different periods are naturally difficult to fix. They have been chosen with regard to the distinguishing floors, so that A and B osv. do not fall within the same period if a floor lies between A and B. On the grounds stated above, it is probably thus … continues

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