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 50 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 50 of 147

Utanför Outside the cement floor building the extent of the prehistoric golvkulturlagret is established. During this work finds are made in the surface layer outside the west wall.

Plain bowl (dam.)74.

A stray find was made further on in earth which can be stated as coming from the archaic layer above cement floor I, or possibly from the surface layer immediately outside the west wall and ...

Archaic terracottahead l 6,5 cm75

The excavation at Άγ. Ἰάκωβος was abandoned on Saturday 28/september 1929. The kindly landowner was content with £ 2/15/- in compensation for damage, and handed over as a gift to the excavation leadership 2 pcs. partridges, 2 pcs. doves and 2 pcs. melisofages, all freshly shot game. His name was Paskalis Mosfilis.

On Sunday 29/9 papa Polyvios offers a prayer for the families of the excavation leadership. He received therefore 1 litre of brandy.

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