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 64 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 64 of 180

Continued from scan 63

… and beside this a larger fragment of a bronze bowl or similar. Handle? is found [page number: 127.] just above it in I 1.

8/5This area which is now under excavation gives the impression of being a collapse layer, where the position of the various objects is entirely dependent on chance. Probably they have followed earth that collapsed from above along the rock and finally came to rest in the described hollow. This assumption is supported by the fact that there are found both below and above larger and smaller pieces of statues even on the surface. All finds appear to be concentrated next to the vertical rock edge. Beyond and above this the earth changes colour. To the south the area is bounded in the upper two squares by a wall which extends diagonally downward from the section line. To the left the finds do not stand in any visible connection with architecture. In J 1 the outer … continues

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