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 15 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 15 of 66

Continued from scan 14

… broken and walled with gypsum of relatively small river stones. The floor is formed by the rock which is dressed flat. The wall opposite the gateway has probably had the same or a similar appearance as the corresponding wall in room 2. Here the conditions are, however, very destroyed ... Perhaps the quoin stones in the NW corner are the remains of a now destroyed entrance (the threshold stones). The main entrance to room 1 is, however, on the SE wall. The threshold stones are partly preserved and a step down on the inside. In this step there are, on either side of the door posts, square holes for the door pivots. Roughly in the middle of the NE wall there is a square wall block at the bottom, on the sides faced with gypsum. The wall block can be interpreted as an altar.

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