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 54 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 54 of 147

Continued from p. 51

… to the same 0-point a nail in Δ. The figures give the level below this nail. Nearest above the statues lies a fairly compact clay layer, which has rained down from the earth under the marble slabs Γ–Δ. Under this compact clay layer the statues lie extraordinarily densely, almost without intervening earth. A first examination seems to indicate that the statues have been buried in a pit, an impression which, on closer examination must be corrected at least in part. They in fact stand on the floor and leaned against the walls and corners in a room sunk into the existing fill layers. The statues in this southwest corner, whose position is shown by plans and photographs are:

Breastpart of a dam. statuel 12 cm0,18 – 0,2511.
Fragment of a statuel 24 cm0,22 – 0,3212.
– ” — ” – Fragment of a statuel 21 cm0,28 – 0,4413.
Stoneheadl 13 cm0,26 – 0,4014.
Torso of a Heracles statuel 43 cm0,21 – 0,5015.
Fragment of a right legl 40 cm0,46 – 0,5016.
Fragments of a base with feetl cm0,10 – 0,2017.

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