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Field diary·DII:2f·1930

Amathus, tombs 13–20

Kept by Alfred Westholm

46 handwritten pages in Swedish, each shown beside a transcription and an English translation, with the drawings on 2 pages cut out beside the text.

Read the field diary46 pages · 6,330 words · 0 dated entries

DII:2f is one of the three notebooks Alfred Westholm kept at Amathus in 1930, and the shortest. The cover labels read "Amathus 1930 (tomb inv.) T. 13–20, A. Westholm", and the title page gives the place and year in Greek with his Greek name, Ἀλφεῖρος.

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It holds no narrative, only tomb inventories. Despite the label, the lists run from tomb 10 to tomb 23, with a page on tomb 2. Each object is entered with a short description, a height or diameter, the depth at which it lay and its number: White Painted kylikes, plates and barrel jugs, Bichrome vessels, an iron arrowhead, a bronze bird, a gold earring and fragments of ivory. Some tomb headings carry a personal name beside the number (Girkis at tomb 13, Sofoklis at tomb 12). The last page notes finds from the earth over a tomb and its dromos, with a sketched section through the layers. The lists are mostly in English, the headings in Swedish.

The page reader shows each page's scan beside our transcription and English translation. DII:2e holds the Amathus diary and tombs 1–9, DII:2g tombs 22, 24 and 25. The finds are in Amathus, finds from tombs 10–26.

Sources

  • Gjerstad, E., Lindros, J., Sjöqvist, E. and Westholm, A. 1935. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927–1931, vol. II. Stockholm, pp. 64–130.

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How to cite

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The whole diary

Short
Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:2f (Amathus, tombs 13–20, 1930).
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Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:2f, Amathus, tombs 13–20, 1930. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-2f (accessed [date]).
BibTeX
@misc{sce-dii-2f, author = {Alfred Westholm}, title = {{Field diary DII:2f: Amathus, tombs 13–20}}, year = {1930}, howpublished = {Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–1931. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:2f}, note = {transcription and English translation ancientcyprus.com, CC BY 4.0}, url = {https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-2f} }

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:2f (Amathus, tombs 13–20, 1930), scan 1.
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Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:2f, Amathus, tombs 13–20, 1930, scan 1. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-2f/p/1 (accessed [date]).

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:2f (Amathus, tombs 13–20, 1930), scan 1, l. 2.
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Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:2f, Amathus, tombs 13–20, 1930, scan 1, line 2. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-2f/p/1#l2 (accessed [date]).