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 50 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 50 of 180

Continued from scan 49

… the fill and not in situ. Not far from them, and also on the rock lay a small pomegranate of terracotta, certainly a fragment of a statue.

107.107 In the upper part of square α1, nearest the section edge, there was uncovered something remarkable and at variance with everything that had been the case in the earlier excavation, namely two statue bases with the foot portion still remaining, both without doubt standing in their original position. Both are archaic. Hereby the idea is of course discarded is thus refuted, the last idea that this whole statue-rich area should be explained as a so-called "Schutt", which impression one of course received when excavating the first statues. This idea has gradually had to give way to the view that the statues and architectural parts … continues

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