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Field diary·DII:3b·1928–1929

Vouni, Korakas and the palace

Kept by Alfred Westholm

165 handwritten pages in Swedish, each shown beside a transcription and an English translation, with the drawings on 11 pages cut out beside the text.

Read the field diary165 pages · 18,748 words · 35 dated entries

DII:3b is Alfred Westholm's second Vouni diary. The typed label reads "Vouni: Korakas, 26/6–26/7 1928, tombs 1–16; the palace, 4/9–?; by Alfred Westholm". The front pages are a Modern Greek word and phrase list.

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The first part follows the excavation of the Korakas cemetery at Vouni in June and July 1928, tomb by tomb: dromos, door packing and chamber described and measured, the skeletons, and numbered find lists of plain and painted bowls, jugs and pithoi. The second part opens on 4 September 1928, the anniversary of the expedition's arrival in Cyprus, with the return to Vouni: a light railway and wagons brought from Amiandos to carry spoil, a surveyor from Amiandos finishing the large field map of the plateau, and the clearing of the palace rooms, starting with rooms 1 and 2, with notes on cement floors, collapsed roofs and the sizes of mud bricks. The last pages are a dated list of photographs and articles from January and February 1929, under the headings Vecko-Journalen and The Illustrated London News. The text is in Swedish.

The page reader shows each page's scan beside our transcription and English translation. See also Vouni, the Korakas tombs and Vouni palace, rooms 1–65.

Sources

  • Gjerstad, E., Lindros, J., Sjöqvist, E. and Westholm, A. 1937. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927–1931, vol. III. Stockholm, pp. 111–290, 298–339.

Dated entries

As written in the field diary, in page order

  1. 26 Jun 1928Vouniscan 1
  2. 26 Jun 1928Vouníscan 5
  3. 26 Jul 1928Vouniscan 88
  4. 4 Sept 1928Vouniscan 89
  5. 5 Sept 1928Vouniscan 89
  6. 6 Sept 1928Vouníscan 90
  7. 7 Aug 1928Vouníscan 90
  8. 9 Aug 1928Vouníscan 90
  9. 10 Aug 1928Vouníscan 90
  10. 11 Sept 1928Vouníscan 94
  11. 12 Sept 1928Vouniscan 96
  12. 13 Sept 1928Vouniscan 96
  13. 14 Jun 1928Vouníscan 98
  14. 15 Sept 1928Vouniscan 100
  15. 16 Sept 1928Vouniscan 100
  16. 17 Sept 1928Vouniscan 100
  17. 18 Sept 1928Vouniscan 100
  18. 23 Sept 1928Vouniscan 100
  19. 24 Sept 1928Vouniscan 100
  20. 25 Sept 1928Vouniscan 105
  21. 26 Sept 1928Vouniscan 108
  22. 27 Sept 1928Vouniscan 112
  23. 28 Sept 1928Vouniscan 117
  24. 29 Sept 1928Vouniscan 119
  25. 30 Sept 1928Vouniscan 120
  26. 1 Oct 1928Vouniscan 120
  27. 2 Oct 1928Vouniscan 120
  28. 3 Oct 1928Vouniscan 126
  29. 4 Oct 1928Vouniscan 129
  30. 5 Oct 1928Vouniscan 131
  31. 10 Oct 1928Vouniscan 137
  32. 18 Jan 1929Vouniscan 163
  33. 25 Jan 1929Vouniscan 163
  34. 8 Feb 1929Vouniscan 164
  35. 1 Feb 1929Vouniscan 164

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:3b (Vouni, Korakas and the palace, 1928–1929).
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Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:3b, Vouni, Korakas and the palace, 1928–1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-3b (accessed [date]).
BibTeX
@misc{sce-dii-3b, author = {Alfred Westholm}, title = {{Field diary DII:3b: Vouni, Korakas and the palace}}, year = {1928}, howpublished = {Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–1931. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:3b}, note = {transcription and English translation ancientcyprus.com, CC BY 4.0}, url = {https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-3b} }

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:3b (Vouni, Korakas and the palace, 1928–1929), p. (9) 9.
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Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:3b, Vouni, Korakas and the palace, 1928–1929, p. (9) 9 [scan 52]. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-3b/p/52 (accessed [date]).

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:3b (Vouni, Korakas and the palace, 1928–1929), p. (9) 9, l. 2.
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Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:3b, Vouni, Korakas and the palace, 1928–1929, p. (9) 9 [scan 52], line 2. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-3b/p/52#l2 (accessed [date]).