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 105 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.

Page 121Scan 105 of 147

Continued from scan 104

… investigation of the conditions beneath the floor shows that the room is built on enormous blocks of clay rock (to the south) and sand rock (to the north) These enormous substructures must later be investigated more closely. They have of course belonged to a very large building, probably the temple whose traces we have sought everywhere.

Rum 9-10Rum 11.Similar to room 8, 9-10. Further west of these lies a large substructure of Paraskevi-stone Ru Room 11 occupies most of this complex and consists of a large floor, destroyed in the southeastern parts. Opposite the north wall is found a conically hollowed stone sunk into the floor base level 1,30 avv. The floor level is 0,95-1,00.

The architecture now excavated forms in a way a finished unit, since the house fragments on all sides have been destroyed by digging in recent times. Admittedly walls run westward but these seem to lie at a lower level than the house complex 8-11. The original large temple … continues

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