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 126 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 126 of 180

Continued from scan 125

… with the temple excavation. Of great interest for the dating of the temple it thus becomes the dating of the house 1, built at a later date. Naturally one must assume that the finds of both the two lion reliefs 150-151 as well as the bronze shoe 152 as good dating points for house 1. They were found, both of them, lying on the floor-If these are dated to the early Classical period (c. 460 ?) the temple must o the consequence must be that the temple building before this time was demolished! and thus up-built much earlier still. It should be added that house 1 in several respects differs from other buildings on the excavated temple area on the summit. Whereas the floors hitherto found besides found have been of cement or pottery, the floor in house 1 is of a peculiar marble with small glittering marble chips mixed gypsum, whose substratum has not yet been examined. Also the ones with for the most part small stones … continues

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