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 37 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 37 of 180

Continued from scan 36

59 60… mostly fragments of smashed clay vessels. The circumstances seem to indicate that we are (through the excavation to the east) rather moving away from a find centre of statues than the reverse. After A2 - C2 has been finished, a new part A3 - C3 is however begun. However this is for the time being excavated with an ordinary hoe with precautionary measures. In B2 there had been found two insignificant finds, a bronze pin 59 and another small dove 60 of pottery (the terracotta layer) - After the section on this terrace was drawn, the work begins on the area N.W. of the section line. The 2 m squares are here named analogously α, β, γ, whereby α1, β1 and γ1 lie at the edge of resp. A1, B1, C1. To begin with γ 1 seems to be of greatest interest. The square is excavated from C1. Quite close to the section line and next in the same terracotta-layer as there, something is being uncovered which at first looks like a very large terracotta foot but which after lifting turns out to be a neck … continues

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