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Field diary·DII:2d·1930

Soli, Cholades, and Mersinaki

Kept by Alfred Westholm

66 handwritten pages in Swedish, each shown beside a transcription and an English translation, with the drawings on 2 pages cut out beside the text.

Read the field diary66 pages · 9,028 words · 4 dated entries

DII:2d holds Alfred Westholm's notes on two sanctuary excavations near Soli in 1930. Its typed label reads "Soli, Holades. July 1928 and 4/11 1930. Mersinaki, object list and list of workers. Binders missing. By Alfred Westholm."

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The Cholades section begins with how the site was found. In early July 1928 Efremis of Galini found the body of a seated sphinx in his field at Cholades; the find was reported to the Swedes, then digging tombs at Vouni, and the sphinx was sold to the museum. Westholm writes that the excavation of the field began in June 1930, and the entries pick it up again on 7 November 1930, with sections and layers around room 3 and the gateway in wall 1. The Mersinaki pages are an object register starting at no. 601: coins, terracotta heads and statuettes, and fragments of stone statues, each with its square and level. A week's pay list for the workmen, in Greek, comes first. The text is in Swedish, the object lists mostly in English.

The page reader shows each page's scan beside our transcription and English translation. See Soli: the Cholades temples, Mersinaki and Westholm's The Temples of Soli.

Sources

  • Gjerstad, E., Lindros, J., Sjöqvist, E. and Westholm, A. 1937. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927–1931, vol. III. Stockholm, pp. 340–398, 416–547.
  • Westholm, A. 1936. The Temples of Soli: Studies on Cypriote Art during Hellenistic and Roman Periods. Stockholm.

Dated entries

As written in the field diary, in page order

  1. 6 Oct 1930scan 3
  2. 13 Oct 1930Soliscan 4
  3. 7 Nov 1930Soli - Holadesscan 44
  4. 6 Oct 1930Ξηλοτιμπωνscan 65

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The whole diary

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:2d (Soli, Cholades, and Mersinaki, 1930).
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Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:2d, Soli, Cholades, and Mersinaki, 1930. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-2d (accessed [date]).
BibTeX
@misc{sce-dii-2d, author = {Alfred Westholm}, title = {{Field diary DII:2d: Soli, Cholades, and Mersinaki}}, year = {1930}, howpublished = {Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–1931. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:2d}, note = {transcription and English translation ancientcyprus.com, CC BY 4.0}, url = {https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-2d} }

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:2d (Soli, Cholades, and Mersinaki, 1930), scan 1.
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Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:2d, Soli, Cholades, and Mersinaki, 1930, scan 1. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-2d/p/1 (accessed [date]).

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:2d (Soli, Cholades, and Mersinaki, 1930), scan 1, l. 2.
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Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:2d, Soli, Cholades, and Mersinaki, 1930, scan 1, line 2. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-2d/p/1#l2 (accessed [date]).