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 160 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 160 of 180

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254255.… the same earth as in layer 6 in the profile described above section. In this earth numerous painted and plain geometric sherds many of unusual types, further a half black-varnished small pyxis. C 15 cm from the crown of wall b was partly found inside between its stones a bronze buckle 254 and from the earth in this layer which entirely was sieved a small green bone button 255.

It thus appears that the finds here seem as if the breakthrough excavation has given a positive result only to half, namely as regards the early pottery. Some remains of the temple's west wall have on the other hand not with certainty been established. The west wall seems to have been pushed inward into the temple, where stones are now found, to make room for the building of house 1. Walls b) and c) may, which is the likely case, be older than house 1 partly or where contemporary with it, in which case they served as substructure for the floor. So they have of course also in the previous … continues

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