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 120 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 120 of 165

Continued from scan 119

… mostly grey fragments of mudbrick, very disintegrated and mixed with red earth (intervening joints?). Collapse seems to have occurred both from above room 11 and to some extent from the wall towards room 10. In the south-eastern corner were found a few moulded cut stone mouldings of a previously known type. Together with these up-were also taken coarse pithos pottery.

30/9Sunday. Preparations for Vivi's birthday.

1/10Vivi's birthday, when the first large sculpted stone in the great courtyard, room 14, was found together with a spurious head from the Roman period. More about that later.

Room 13.2/10This must be written about room 13: Room 13 in a way continues the previously described row of rooms on the northeast side of the palace and borders on room 12 to the southeast and on the large court … continues

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