Field diary·DII:2d·1930

Soli, Cholades, and MersinakiAlfred Westholm

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Handwritten in Swedish. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 10 of field diary DII:2d (Soli, Cholades, and Mersinaki), handwritten in Swedish. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:2d, Public domain (CC0).

Unnumbered pageScan 10 of 66

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T… the accuracy of this. Some days have passed and the hope of finding archaic statues has vanished. Statues must however have existed even if they were Roman. Perhaps they lie further north of the sphinx pit and the cross trench. In the late stage of the excavation a trench is opened here parallel with the long trench. The southern part of the new trench cuts through a room in the same wall complex containing numerous statue fragments from Roman time. What is interesting about these is that they seem to derive from an Isis temple, and then of course from the Isis temple which Strabo speaks of standing facing the city's western gates! Efremis' field lies on the slope of a valley that opens … continues

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