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 13 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 13 of 66

Continued from scan 12

181719 (327)20… lena bronze /18. Further was found a beautiful bronze object – the head of a slow-worm 17 also a covered, Roman lamp l. . Room 1 has its entrance in the southeast wall completely similar to that which is better preserved in room 2 In the wall between room 1 and 2 Mavro Keratas discovers a built-in head, which gives a Hellenistic impression (20) l. 33 cm Archaeologists' hopes of new finds up-are only slightly raised by almost nothing. Some insignificant statue fragments in room 2 in the surface layer gave rise to the suspicion that this room too would be full of statues. The excavation of room 2 is therefore decided. The soil conditions in room 2 are similar to those in room 1 Strangely enough the statue fragments lie here in the upper, with rubble stones mixed layer

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