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Field diary·DII:3a·1928

Vouni I

Kept by Alfred Westholm

180 handwritten pages in Swedish, each shown beside a transcription and an English translation, with the drawings on 13 pages cut out beside the text.

Read the field diary180 pages · 23,337 words · 65 dated entries

DII:3a, "Vouni I", is the first of Alfred Westholm's diaries from Vouni, the hilltop palace site above Morphou Bay. The cover reads "Vouni I 1928 (A. Westholm = Alfiros) 18/4–20/6 1928", and the title page gives the place and his Greek name, Ἀλφεῖρος. It covers the first season on the hill, from 18 April to 20 June 1928.

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The diary opens with the move: tents, tools and household gear carted in two trips from Karavostasi and set up on the summit. Westholm then records trial trenches across the slopes, the walls of a large building with gypsum-set ashlar masonry which he soon decides to call "the palace", a gale that halted work one midday, and from 15 May the excavation on the highest summit, where a squarish building on the bare rock was cleared. There the entries note two bronzes showing a bull attacked by two lions, published from the temple of Athena. Finds are numbered with their levels; a find list closes the volume. The text is in Swedish.

The page reader shows each page's scan beside our transcription and English translation. See also Vouni: the hill, views and work in progress and the excavation page.

Sources

  • Gjerstad, E., Lindros, J., Sjöqvist, E. and Westholm, A. 1937. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927–1931, vol. III. Stockholm, pp. 76–290 (temple of Athena pp. 85–110; bronze relief p. 97).

Dated entries

As written in the field diary, in page order

  1. 18 Apr 1928Vouniscan 1
  2. 18 Apr 1928Vouniscan 3
  3. 19 Apr 1928Vouniscan 5
  4. 20 Apr 1928Vouniscan 11
  5. 21 Apr 1928Vouniscan 14
  6. 22 Apr 1928Karavostasiscan 18
  7. 23 Apr 1928Vouniscan 19
  8. 24 Apr 1928Vouniscan 21
  9. 25 Apr 1928Vouniscan 25
  10. 26 Apr 1928Vouniscan 28
  11. 27 Apr 1928Vouniscan 30
  12. 28 Apr 1928Vouniscan 34
  13. 29 Apr 1928Vouniscan 36
  14. 30 Apr 1928Vouniscan 36
  15. 1 May 1928Vouniscan 40
  16. 1 May 1928Vouniscan 41
  17. 2 May 1928Vouniscan 45
  18. 3 May 1928Vouniscan 49
  19. 4 May 1928Vouniscan 54
  20. 5 May 1928Vouniscan 56
  21. 6 May 1928Vouniscan 60
  22. 7 May 1928Vouniscan 60
  23. 8 May 1928Vouniscan 64
  24. 9 May 1928Vouniscan 69
  25. 10 May 1928Vouniscan 74
  26. 11 May 1928Vouniscan 77
  27. 12 May 1928Vouniscan 84
  28. 13 May 1928Vouniscan 86
  29. 14 May 1928Vouniscan 86
  30. 15 May 1928Vouniscan 88
  31. 16 May 1928Vouniscan 89
  32. 17 May 1928Vouniscan 90
  33. 18 May 1928Vouniscan 94
  34. 20 May 1928Vouniscan 94
  35. 21 May 1928Vouniscan 95
  36. 22 May 1928Vouniscan 96
  37. 23 May 1928Vouniscan 98
  38. 24 May 1928Vouniscan 98
  39. 25 May 1928Vouniscan 99
  40. 26 May 1928Vouniscan 104
  41. 27 May 1928Vouniscan 107
  42. 28 May 1928Vouniscan 108
  43. 29 May 1928Vouniscan 110
  44. 30 May 1928Vouniscan 113
  45. 31 May 1928Vouniscan 116
  46. 1 Jun 1928Vouniscan 122
  47. 2 Jun 1928Vouniscan 131
  48. 3 Jun 1928Vouniscan 134
  49. 4 Jun 1928Vouniscan 134
  50. 5 Jun 1928Vouniscan 137
  51. 5 Jun 1928Vouniscan 140
  52. 7 Jun 1928Vouniscan 145
  53. 8 Jun 1928Vouniscan 148
  54. 9 Jun 1928Vouniscan 151
  55. 19 Apr 1928Vouniscan 151
  56. 10 Jun 1928Vouniscan 155
  57. 11 Jun 1928Vouniscan 155
  58. 12 Jun 1928Vouniscan 161
  59. 13 Jun 1928Vouniscan 163
  60. 14 Jun 1928Vouniscan 165
  61. 15 Jun 1928Vouniscan 166
  62. 17 Jun 1928Vouniscan 166
  63. 18 Jun 1928Vouniscan 166
  64. 20 Jun 1928Vouniscan 166
  65. 21 Jun 1928Vouniscan 172

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The whole diary

Short
Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:3a (Vouni I, 1928).
Full
Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:3a, Vouni I, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-3a (accessed [date]).
BibTeX
@misc{sce-dii-3a, author = {Alfred Westholm}, title = {{Field diary DII:3a: Vouni I}}, year = {1928}, howpublished = {Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–1931. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:3a}, note = {transcription and English translation ancientcyprus.com, CC BY 4.0}, url = {https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-3a} }

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:3a (Vouni I, 1928), p. 15.
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Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:3a, Vouni I, 1928, p. 15 [scan 180]. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-3a/p/180 (accessed [date]).

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:3a (Vouni I, 1928), p. 15, l. 2.
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Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:3a, Vouni I, 1928, p. 15 [scan 180], line 2. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-3a/p/180#l2 (accessed [date]).