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 106 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 106 of 165

The earth conditions in room 8 are very reminiscent of those in room 6. Beneath a c 0,30 m thick black surface layer follows a relatively thick light layer, of resulting from dissolved light, grey-white mudbrick. These, however, are here considerably more destroyed and have for the most part fused together into a grey mass, thus not as in the previous case when the different bricks or fragments thereof could clearly be distinguished. This is perhaps possible here too, but with considerably greater difficulty. The transition to the nearest lower layer is here also not so colossally marked, though easily established. As regards the slope of this layer one can clearly see that a collapse has occurred from the walls towards rooms 6 and 9 in towards the centre of room 8. - From elsewhere no ~~[? lutn]~~ collapse can be established in this layer. This is, however, the case in the nearest … continues

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