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 94 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 94 of 147

Continued from p. 99

… as the others. It is highly up - ' attention-catching that in the charcoal-filled bemixed dark earth (like that of the statue layer) pieces of statues are found, of which an arm can be fitted to a statue (33) down in the cult-room. Since the earth is the same it seems as if the statues possibly came up-from the terrace of the upper marble slabs or at - least stand in connection with other statues thereup, synchronistic. It is clear that a clearing also of this level would be valuable. Of other small objects in the same layer c. 0,50 above the marble level are noted:

Plankstatuette (head missing)l 38 cm552.
Fish-hook (pieces)—553.
Coin and pieces of bronze554.
Bronze pieces565

Immediately inside the upper marble of the south-east corner of the cult room, there was found:

Arrowhead of bronze tangl 4,4 cm avv 0,00557
Lump of bronzel 8 cm " 0,00558

This statue layer on the upper marmara … continues

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