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 134 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 134 of 180

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238239… and at the same time the week's work ris nearing its end, but still precious finds are to be made . The ash layer described earlier has in fact been begun. It lies, as mentioned before, in a hollow in the rock and covers a round surface of somewhat more than 1 m2. Already in the upper part of this layer a few hammered rhomb-bands of silver 238 are first found, but after a while a thick gold pin is found in weight "about half a lira". 239.

3/6Sunday. Photographs at Vouni, Loutro.

2402414/6In the same layer as the gold pin from Saturday 239 a pendant of gold is found, consisting of a roughly conical shaped gold sheet, held by four twisted gold threads. The gold sleeve has probably held a (now lost) stone or the like. 240. In the same layer there is also a bronze sheet and a pair of bronze studs 241. The ash layer has been excavated; it rests on a completely … continues

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