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 47 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 47 of 180

Continued from scan 46

… in a leaning position in the ash layer itself.

95.In the vicinity of the large terracotta statues 69-70 another terracotta foot is being prepared in upright position 95 (1,70)

969798right under the foot part of 77 is found a very damaged female torso which once belonged to an excellent Greek statue. The surface of the fragment is completely dissolved into thousands of small flakes, and not even zaponlack can save anything of it. The flakes are indeed all collected, but will hardly be able to be joined. The abandonment is probably connected with heating and the charcoal and ash layer that surrounds the statue. The statue has number 96 (1,30). This female torso rests directly on the lower part of a plain limestone statuette with preserved painting 97 (1,58). Next to this is also found, partly adhering in the gypsum layer on the base, a completely intact terracotta statuette 98 (1,56), and closely beside this, entirely encased in charcoal … continues

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