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 113 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 113 of 180

Continued from scan 112

208209… heten of these, and also in the bottom layer, some bronzes were taken out: a boss, a nail, an arrowhead, and fragments of bronze sheet 208. In the same layer as these objects there are also found 6 fragments of worn terracotta akroteria 209.

30/5Wednesday. East of house 1 the clearing of the staircase wall was earlier interrupted for reasons of caution. Now, on the other hand, the time is suitable for its continuation. The excavation had been stopped at some loose quadrant stones in the earth m from the east wall of house 1. In the trench wall a significant stratification can be observed in the earth: beneath the dark surface layer follows a light brown layer and beneath this a dark bottom layer. From the staircase wall a slanting sloping gypsum layer runs in between the two later ones. It extends, however, only c 1 m. A section of the earth at a suitable place … continues

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