Field diary·DII:3a·1928

Vouni IAlfred Westholm

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Handwritten in Swedish. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 105 of field diary DII:3a (Vouni I), handwritten in Swedish. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:3a, Public domain (CC0).

Unnumbered pageScan 105 of 180

Continued from scan 104

… the cutting continued. The area between the cement yard and the stepped wall is also completed. The cement yard ends to the west at a row of upright stones, which form a right angle with another stretch of wall. On both sides of the row of upright stones there is to the north a square depression in the rock 33 x 39 cm, which possibly contained a statue base, and to the south a dressed moulded stone with a square depression of the same kind. This depression is 20 x 21 cm. The cement floor next to these things is probably destroyed, but judging by the nature of the earth one must assume that it extended as far as over this part too. 0,95 m west of the row of stones and parallel to it, two well-laid steps similar to those in house 1 are found. These steps do not seem to lead up to anything, but a closer examination of the earth layers shows a clear joint in the layer sequence exactly at the level of the uppermost step. The earth above this joint c. 30 cm … continues

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