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 135 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 135 of 180

Continued from scan 134

… separate layer of reddish-brown bottom earth of the same kind as often is found nearest the rock and which is almost always without finds. A layer section at a suitable place gives the following results, with the figures measured from the crest of the south wall, which lies only insignificantly below the surface of the earth:

10,00Brown plough-soil layer contain-
ing bronze objects.
20,30(Charcoal-) ash layer containing
gold, silver and bronze objects
The layer less dark than on
the inside of the south wall. En
3Reddish-brown subsoil.
The rock

there can be no doubt that the ash layers on the inner and outer side of the south wall are one and the same and thus belong to a period earlier than the temple building. The similarity of the finds and the appearance of the earth speaks for this.

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