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 49 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 47Scan 49 of 147

Continued from scan 48

Bothros~~[?Bothros… sloping trampled surface in E, which according to the levels is equal to the underlevel of cement floor 2 or slightly higher (2,25-2,30). Above this level are the sherds geom-arch., below immediately the prehistoric. A row of extremely poor stones up in the surface both toward south and north are perhaps a remnant of a outer temenos wall, in that case from archaic or later times. The mentioned threshold-stone is set into this wall. The sherds ~~] around and under the wall belong are sk archaic-geom. Without any positive result the floor of the geometric temenos is broken up in and for the purpose of establishing that no remnant of a the prehistoric cult place has been preserved within the excavated area. The trampled surface at level 2,25 is established under the greater part of the floor In the northernmost parts it is, however, difficult to follow. Probably this dark layer constitutes an old surface layer from the period MC III – Geomtr. Through further excavation

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