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 24 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 24 of 147

Continued from p. 21

17.… nearest Δ. On the boundary towards Z, cuts a another wall the section trench, a wall, which probably forms the boundary of a well-preserved cement-floor, which extends into I1. In this wall was found a walled-in offering, an archaic ribbed-ribbed torpedo-pithos (- - -dim) (17) entirely overcovered with cement. (see photo). The opening was blocked with two stones. The earth in was strangely yellowish (earth sample kept) . In Z, immediately above the wall offering lies a large square stone probably on the cement floor, level 2,05.

Obs!Above the cement floor lies a compact stone-packing, evidently the substructure for a still higher-lying floor, which has now been destroyed. This stone- packing is for the time being left unexcavated. The cement floor itself ends in I1 with a wall, which extends down to a level of I1-K1 is the previously mentioned level excavation. It continues in layer 8, which is pure sand-gravel level. In the lower part of K1 lie three stones quite near the surface . A round red … continues

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