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 45 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 43Scan 45 of 147

Continued from scan 44

… upper ones were laid on top. The objects that once were here had already been found in the surface layers around the walls outside. Under cement floor 2 layers with prehistoric sherds are to be taken up immediately, layers which are of course untouched both by βόθρος and by treasure-hunters. The floor is broken through with a T-shaped trench. The stratigraphy appears to be the same as in I-K. Under the floor there are only prehistoric sherds.

1)2)3)4)The following can thus be established: Over the the prehistoric layers has been laid a cement floor 2 surrounded by walls, not down-dug into the prehistoric layers. This cement-floor (2) cannot be absolutely dated by any finds. It is however probably have from geometric time. Over this cement floor (2) has in archaic time been laid another cement floor (1) with use of the same floorwalls as now on the inside are cemented. Here also belong wall offerings. Over this archaic cement floor (1) there was another floor, to which the stone packing formed the substructure. It … continues

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