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 36 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 36 of 180

29/4Sunday. Limnitis with picnic at the shore

30/4The squares A2 - C2 are being excavated down to final level with greater speed, as the find layer has entirely and apparently run out. The red earth which marks the terracotta layer is followed quickly onward, but strangely enough without finds. The floor in the squares consists of a loose rock mass, which is plane-hewn. In A2 the vertical rock wall is followed, which still extends toward the east. S.E.? No: E.S.E. No walls are found, nor cuttings in the rock or larger loose stones in the earth fill. It should be noted, however, that finds of pieces of cement-floor lying both in A2 - C2 and among the statues in A1 - C1. They appear to have come to their present position at the same time as the statues, at least as repeated investigations indicate. The cement pieces lie mostly with the smooth surface downward. In square C2 a quantity of pottery is found, … continues

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