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 140 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 140 of 180

Continued from scan 139

… the trench, very close not far from the terrace wall by the tents is found practically at the surface, a layer of small hewn and unworked stones lying densely together without binding material The earth here becomes red-brown. On the basis of analogies from other trial trenches at Vouni the arrangement can be determined as the substructure of a cement floor. The rock lies here at c 0,60 m depth. The trench is not extended any further to the north, nor is the substructure considered sufficiently interesting to warrant an enlargement of the trench. Hereby trial trench 7 is concluded.

5/6Wednesday At a point just where the footpath comes up so that one can see the tents, there are also, above the ground surface, remains of a substantial building, apparently for the most part hewn out of the rock. Thus one perceives at least stone 4 parallel walls running north-west roughly along the slope of the ground surface … continues

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