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 25 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 25 of 180

161718On closer clearing it turns out to be a female torso 16 of hard, dense limestone, lying obliquely downward with the foot end highest. At the opposite end a seemingly flat stone is lifted out. When the underside is turned up, one sees an archaic smiling female face of immense beauty. 17 The face is completely undamaged, and on her head she wears a peculiar crown or diadem with alternating double rosettes and dancing, happy children. Today, somewhat north of the excavation site, on the ground surface, the breast section of a small female statue 18 is found.

192025/4The same level as before is kept. In the dark red layer c. 5 cm thick is found on near square A1 in B1 a small exquisite terracotta head from the classical-Greek period 19 and not far from there also in B1 a right hand of supernatural size- 20. The dark red level is followed from square B1 up towards A1. In doing so, ant- … continues

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