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 11 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 11 of 165

Continued from scan 10

… with rock-fall, which probably did not fall all at once but in the form of a 1000-year rain of small rock pieces from above. This falling is still going on. The vessels are =

Unpainted jugheight 18 cm24
Unpainted bowldiam. 12 cm25
Unpainted "amphora"height 40 cm26
Pithos” height 64 cm27
Lamplength 11 cm28
Lamp” length 14 cm29
Unpainted jugheight 18 cm30.
Lamplength 12 cm31

To these vessels there come some further which were exposed in connection with the lifting and which belong to the same cluster. In square A there is still another cluster of vessels lying at a slightly higher level. Near the gateway lie a number of bowls, partly standing inside one another and further in others. The vessels obviously belong together with the remains of a skull at the far end of the corner. … continues

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