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 88 of field diary DII:3a (Vouni I), handwritten in Swedish, with drawings. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:3a, Public domain (CC0).

Unnumbered pageScan 88 of 180

Continued from scan 87

Excavation on / the summit.… time the well-preserved remains of the cement-floor 2 with its substructure walls. Trial trench 6 is extended until it cuts no. 1.

Ornamental flourish between two cross-hatched squares
DrawingOrnamental flourish between two cross-hatched squares

14915/5When trial trench 6 has been finished it is moved the work up to the highest summit of Vouni. Here are seen on a gently sloping field some walls which evidently form right angles with one another. From one of these walls a trench is opened in a northerly direction down towards the tents. The surface layer is heavily mixed with large coarse roof-tile pieces and gypsum fragments. In the surface fill of the trial trench is found a flattened bronze bowl together with some pressed bronze sheets. (149) The trench extends from a firmly built ashlar wall, which in another context is to be described. The uneven rock is scraped to c. 0,50 m. depth. Some remarkable stratification in the earth is observed … continues

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