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 111 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 111 of 180

Continued from scan 110

… the stepped wall in the north is built with gypsum. The ashlar blocks are irregular and of a soft, weathered stone. På On the inner-side of the south wall, c 2,50 m from the S.E.- corner lie a few fallen stones, which apparently form a wall. West of these the rock drops away abruptly, so that the earth here reaches as deep as 1,50 m. Under y Here a earth section is cut out, which gives the following results:

0,20 msurface layer
1,00 mbrown clay earth with small gypsum lumps
1,50 mlight (white) calcareous, newly formed clay
The rock

203At the level 0,70 in this section the first more significant statue fragment from the top was found: the lower part of a standing limestone statuette holding a shield 203. The fragment had long since been broken into two parts, together measuring 0,25 m. In the same layer as the statuette, though on a slightly lower level, … continues

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