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 81 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 81 of 180

Continued from scan 80

12510… to the rock. The layer nearest the rock belying (the one that contained bronze-nails etc.) seems to have existed when the gypsum-base was laid. (The same applies also w. 2 though to a lesser degree). To the north gypsum base 1 opens so that the stone core becomes visible. The edges of the gypsum semicircle toward this are cut straight (with edge). The earth between the stones of the stone core is red, not containing pottery or finds. Some traces of fire in the vicinity of or inside 1 an were not found. The nature of the things may become the object of mutually divergent interpretations. Without a clearing of this whole upper entrance room the question can hardly [be definitively] solved. Possibly the the gypsum bases constitute pedestals for statues. Their position appears, however, in that case unmotivated. Archaic statues, one has after all, meanwhile, enjoyed, wherever they stand! - Almost immediately after gypsum base 1 with the large amphora number 1360 the cobblestone wall bends off in … continues

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