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 4 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.

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Ajios Fokas. 3/september 1929.

3/9Arrival and moving in at Ag. Phokas' church. Saint Phokas is good and hospitable; his church excellent as headquarters.

4/9That there are antiquities i on Andreas Louka Exindavelonis field c. 150 m south of the church is beyond doubt. For up on the surface lies a fairly large number of fragments of limestone statues. Two piled heaps with with cobblestones are said to stem from illicit digging that took place a couple of years ago. Furthermore it is reported that on the same field some c. 15 years ago one found a very large limestone head which was sold to Limassol. The body of this statue was however not found. In a place next to the larger stone heap one thinks one can make out a backfilled looters' pit next to a larger stone block standing up in the ground surface. Presumably the statue fragments and the stones stem from this pit. That is all, and then workmen ar- … continues

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