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Field diary·DII:2e·1929–1930

Ayios Phokas, Ayios Iakovos, Kition and AmathusAlfred Westholm

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

Scan 100 of field diary DII:2e (Ayios Phokas, Ayios Iakovos, Kition and Amathus), handwritten in Swedish. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:2e, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 100 of 147

Continued from p. 105

… belonging to the almost completely destroyed room 3 was found, characteristically enough (levelled 0,80)

Roman lampdam605

and further higher

Roman lampl. 8 cm dam606
Plain bowldiam. 12,5 cm607

Between the level of 0,80 – 1,10 lie, on the other hand,

2 bronze coins608
Heart and bead of bone609
2 bronze coinsdiam 2,2 - 1,05 cm610
Faience beaddiam 1,1 cm611
Plain jug (neck and rim missing) h 18 cm612

At a deeper level 1,50 the bowls 614 - 617 were found lying one inside another

Black vern. bowldiam 12,5 cm614
” ” Black vern. bowldiam 16 cm615
” ” Black vern. bowl” diam 14 cm616
” ” Black vern. bowl” diam 13 cm617

in earth from here are also salvaged

Red bowldam613
Fragment of a cypriote capital l 18 cm618.

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