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 26 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 26 of 180

Continued from scan 25

2122232424 b)… a number of statue fragments were found, together with pieces over the red layer in A1: an elongated flap of drapery 21; a smaller limestone head with a damaged face (throw away) 22; four connected ring-decorated fingers holding an apple (2 pieces) 23. The large statue no. 16 was lifted up. Immediately beneath this lies, still with the broken surface from the statue facing down, the cut-off right side of the cow no. 16 (24), and beneath this a fragment of a statue base is exposed. The section edge is levelled off. In doing so there emerges, on the boundary of square B, but in A, a larger limestone head, which turns out to belong to 16. The top of the head lies only a few finger-breadths below the ground surface, but has curiously escaped any major damage. The nose lay pressed tightly against a flat stone, and during the difficult lifting it did not come loose … continues

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