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 121 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 121 of 180

Continued from scan 120

… had, despite precautions taken, during the excavation escaped the workmen's attention and was badly damaged by pick and spade. Despite eager searching, are found not the missing pieces of the helmet and neck-part. The head is of the same type as 210 and 216 but somewhat smaller. This is the third Athena head, which has been found within the temple walls. If one accepts the Athenian colony Aipeia's localisation at Vouni där sålunda med all säkerhet ett detta temp-ple has been dedicated to Athena one should not be able to explain the three heads as some coincidence in this locality. It seems that strong reasons existed for the assumption that the temple building, which is under excavation, was Athena's. The significance of this matter can hardly be overestimated. Athena's temple surrounded by treasure houses at the very top of Vouni! — In the same earth as this last limestone head 224 has during the day's course been … continues

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