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 88 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 88 of 147

Continued from p. 93

… also runs into the trench wall to the north and east, where the continuation of the room must be sought.

Below this building level no wall remains are found, but pottery all the way down to the rock from the Geometric period.

From the pottery and other circumstances the different levels can perhaps be dated in the following way:

Statue floorlevelled 1,05-1,10After 400 B.C.
Late archaiclevelled 2,00Before 500 B.C.
Early "levelled 2,65-80After 700 B.C.

An important find that was found at a place where the level 2,00 could not be distinguished as regards the earth, namely in the south-western corner is

Stone headdam561.

It was found in the horizontal fill outside the pit and just on the charac- … continues

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