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 57 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 57 of 180

Continued from scan 56

… above a 0,65 m wide gateway, whose character however cannot be determined more closely. At the base in the gateway the uneven rock is scraped. A ledge in the southern doorpost indicates however the original floor level. Only 1,30 m. from the gateway the trial trench is cut by a more than 1 m high, very firm wall - 1,10 m wide, mur which on the inside is excavated to the same depth. Here there is a level floor, cut into the rock and overlaid with a very thin layer of cement. The wall is exceptionally well laid of huge Vouni stone blocks. On the outer side of the wall are found, in the very indistinctly stratified earth from the surface layer down to the base, not insignificantly classical black- and red-glazed sherds furthest down where the earth becomes red! some geometric sherds of large vessels are collected. On the inside of the wall the pottery is very coarse, isolated red and black-glazed sherds are noted. C. 4,60 m from this wall a similar but still better one is excavated further … continues

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