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 165 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 165 of 180

Continued from scan 164

257… some very insignificant sculpture fragments: a limestone leg, a hand of limestone and one of terracotta, the rump section of a small limestone statuette. All of this receives number 257. Below this place the rock sinks evenly away out towards the slope. No wall is cut, nothing find is made. The earth is under the dark surface layer reddish-brown homogeneous. The depth of the trench is nearest the slope 1,50 m. The whole length of the trench is estimated at 35 m.

25814/6On this day a trial trench of c 25 m length is dug somewhat above no. 11, without any positive result of any kind being obtained. Down to a depth of 1 m the uneven rock is scraped over the whole trench. In the earth were found classical sherds, partly imports and partly Cypriot ... No house walls or the like were found. The whole layout of the trench shows that in this field nothing is to be expected. Among the sherds from this trench, which are not given a number, a small terracotta hand, 258 - … continues

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