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 95 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 95 of 180

164.21/5The whole work plan is arranged and reorganised. In the direction of the tents a site is investigated where the rock emerges at the surface or where at least nothing stands to be explored. Here is brought the greater part of the earth heaps that had previously arisen and now hinder further excavation. Of the trenches laid out for investigation one seems to become especially rewarding. It extends c 5 m from the rock edge towards Karavostasi. Here is found, up towards the top, a corner fragment of a square marble bowl with a Cypriote inscription 164. *) Below this the rock is scraped down to a depth of c 0,75 m. Further down still (to the east) a number of walls with squared stones are cut, until finally, nearest the edge, the low broad town? wall is found. Evidently two freestanding rooms or house structures have been cut here. The numbering takes place

*) C. 10 m further towards E.N.E. along the acropolis wall a second frgm was found, 164a

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