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 39 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 39 of 180

Continued from scan 38

6162… of which they are thus partly obscured from view. The standing statues have no firm foundation but are found standing in the loose earth. No change in the earth conditions can be observed at their lowest levels. The accumulation of the statues at this spot should therefore be understood either as meaning that they simply belong to the earth fill and came there through collapse, or that someone placed a number of statues at this place as in a rubbish corner where they were not meant to be seen. This latter should, in view of their position, be the most likely. Quite close by and lower than 60 a there is found in a lying position a standing female statuette of limestone 61 (1,89) and beside this, at the same level, a seated woman with a child on her lap (limestone) 62 (1,85). Somewhat further in and higher up is found beside … continues

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