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 95 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 138Scan 95 of 95

Continued from p. 137

… better motivated from the standpoint of finds than stratigraphically. The find statistics show at once that IV B-C belongs to a separate period, distinct from the others. The strata show the same thing and that the period is the oldest on the site. There the boundary appears to be extremely well marked. A comparison between the find distribution of the two houses, IV and I, which are important for dating, is instructive. In IV almost no flint, predominantly stone tools, relatively well-fired pottery. In I predominantly flint tools, almost no stone tools, poorly fired pottery.

the Kythrea periods 1 and 2 correspond thus to a delimited earlier stage. The periods 3-7 to a later one.

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