Field diary·DII:3b·1928–1929

Vouni, Korakas and the palaceAlfred Westholm

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Handwritten in Swedish. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 104 of field diary DII:3b (Vouni, Korakas and the palace), handwritten in Swedish. The transcription and translation follow.

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

Unnumbered pageScan 104 of 165

Continued from scan 103

… smaller coarse vessels but also numerous black- and red-varnished classical sherds of very thin and well-formed vessels. – A section of the layers in the very profile corner between a and b has the following appearance, with the measurements taken from the floor:

12,20 mBlack surface layer
22,00 mDark earth with numerous
remains of light mud brick
31,30 mReddish earth resulting
from disintegrated dark mud brick
40,00 mThe rock floor

A closer account of the layers' origin is probably superfluous. – The room's floor is the smoothed rock itself in which besides partly cut down. The wall against room 7 survives to c. 2,30 m. height while the walls to rooms 5 and 8 drop very rapidly in height from … continues

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