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 61 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 61 of 180

Continued from scan 60

118… an observation is made which gives new hopes. The rock falls steeply away to the south-east, and in these deeper layers the earth is dark red and of the same excellent character as in the fine layer at trial trench 2. The trench is deepened at this place all the while the rock is followed. Highest up in the red layer, c 1 m. below the wall mentioned just now, the first find is made: a splendid early Archaic terracotta statue lying horizontally with the head broken off and the break surface facing the sinking rock. Somewhat later it is found a little deeper but quite close, pieces which turn out to form the head. The whole gets number 118. The earth conditions are investigated and the red earth extends down to the the next field wall c 8 m below. In exactly the same way as in trial trench 2 the square division is made. The uppermost first square is here named H1, the one where below I1, and so on. In the field- … continues

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