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Field diary·DII:2e·1929–1930

Ayios Phokas, Ayios Iakovos, Kition and Amathus

Kept by Alfred Westholm

147 handwritten pages in Swedish, each shown beside a transcription and an English translation, with the drawings on 3 pages cut out beside the text.

Read the field diary147 pages · 20,952 words · 16 dated entries

DII:2e is Alfred Westholm's diary for September 1929 to the spring of 1930, the cover labelled "Ajios Fokas 3/9 1929. Ajios Akoufos 14/9–28/9. Kition 30/9–. Amathus, tomb 1–9, 28/3–". It follows his party through four excavations in turn.

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At Ayios Phokas (3–13 September 1929) the party lodged in the church of St Phokas, "excellent as headquarters", and trenched a field where statue fragments lay on the surface, laying out squares named after the Greek alphabet; the excavation was never published. At Ayios Iakovos (14–28 September) the diary records the Iron Age cult place and its finds square by square. The Kition entries begin with the arrival at Larnaca on 30 September and the first day's digging on 1 October at Bamboula, where the workmen's two shillings a day is called "an outrageous robber's price". The Amathus section opens on 28 March 1930 in the Archaic necropolis between the Nicosia–Limassol road and the sea, and continues with find registers for tombs 1–9. The text is in Swedish, the find lists mostly in English.

The page reader shows each page's scan beside our transcription and English translation. See also Kition, Amathus, finds from tombs 1–9 and Ayios Iakovos.

Sources

  • Gjerstad, E., Lindros, J., Sjöqvist, E. and Westholm, A. 1934. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927–1931, vol. I. Stockholm, pp. 360–370 (Ayios Iakovos).
  • Gjerstad, E., Lindros, J., Sjöqvist, E. and Westholm, A. 1935. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927–1931, vol. II. Stockholm, pp. 1–63 (Amathus).
  • 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. 1–75 (Kition).
  • Göransson, K. 2012. "The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: The Cyprus collections in Stockholm and the Swedish excavations after the SCE", Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42, p. 403 (Ayios Phokas).

Dated entries

As written in the field diary, in page order

  1. 3 Sept 1929scan 1
  2. 14 Sept 1929scan 1
  3. 30 Sept 1929scan 1
  4. 28 Mar 1929scan 1
  5. 3 Sept 1929Ajios Fokasp. 1
  6. 4 Sept 1929Ajios Fokasp. 1
  7. 13 Sept 1929Ajios Fokásp. 12
  8. 14 Sept 1929Ajios Fokásp. 12
  9. 14 Sept 1929Ajios Akoufosp. 15
  10. 15 Sept 1929Ajios Akoufosp. 15
  11. 16 Sept 1929Ajios Akoufosp. 15
  12. 28 Sept 1929Άγ. Ἰάκωβοςscan 50
  13. 29 Sept 1929Ajios Fokasscan 50
  14. 30 Sept 1929Kitionp. 49
  15. 1 Oct 1929Kitionp. 49
  16. 28 Mar 1930Amathusp. 135

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Scan order; the field diary’s own page numbers where it has them

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The whole diary

Short
Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:2e (Ayios Phokas, Ayios Iakovos, Kition and Amathus, 1929–1930).
Full
Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:2e, Ayios Phokas, Ayios Iakovos, Kition and Amathus, 1929–1930. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-2e (accessed [date]).
BibTeX
@misc{sce-dii-2e, author = {Alfred Westholm}, title = {{Field diary DII:2e: Ayios Phokas, Ayios Iakovos, Kition and Amathus}}, year = {1929}, howpublished = {Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–1931. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:2e}, note = {transcription and English translation ancientcyprus.com, CC BY 4.0}, url = {https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-2e} }

A page

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:2e (Ayios Phokas, Ayios Iakovos, Kition and Amathus, 1929–1930), p. 1.
Full
Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:2e, Ayios Phokas, Ayios Iakovos, Kition and Amathus, 1929–1930, p. 1 [scan 4]. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-2e/p/4 (accessed [date]).

A line

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:2e (Ayios Phokas, Ayios Iakovos, Kition and Amathus, 1929–1930), p. 1, l. 2.
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Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:2e, Ayios Phokas, Ayios Iakovos, Kition and Amathus, 1929–1930, p. 1 [scan 4], line 2. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-2e/p/4#l2 (accessed [date]).