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 46 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 46 of 147

Continued from p. 43

… probably dates from the Late Classical period. To this period also belong the βόθρος, which little by little were filled with earth from the then surface layer, in which the geometric and archaic statuettes had lain. Of these, evidently the geometric ones were carefully swept out when cement floor 1 was laid. Later they were mixed with the archaic ones, some of which also remained over cement floor 1 inside the walls. The archaic terracottas can be dated by the wall offering pots, the geometric ones by the corresponding pottery.

While digging in the surface layers, further terracottas were found outside the south wall

Miniature jug1,651,8065
Double conical stone bead1,20 m1,5071

During the level excavation under cement floor 2 the conditions are as follows:

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