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 72 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 72 of 180

Continued from scan 71

… the whole is laid out simultaneously is for the time being impossible. Hitherto securely obtained dating points are:

1.The large pithos in situ next to the north wall trial trench 1.

2.The geometric sherds under the cement-floor next to palace wall d.

3.Geometric sherds in the mudbrick wall palace wall c and d. and besides similar red earth.

4.Statues and sherds in the entrance

5.One (? several) (geometric) archaic vessel next to the rock-edge continuation wall to the north of the entrance

6. In trial trench 1 a hole has been opened where the cement floor (? ends) between the north-wall and the terrace wall of the cement floor (?). This lower floor rests directly on the rock in which however a c 1,50 m × 0,75 m large depression has been cut. This is dug down to a depth of 1,30 metres without the bottom being reached. In the earth from here (that is, under the floor) only geometric sherds are found … continues

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