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 124 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 124 of 165

Table continued from scan 123

70,14Brown sterile bottom layer without
pottery
80,00The rock unworked.

In profile b there is additionally one more layer; 0,60 - 0,90 m from the rock nearest the wall towards room 12 lies a wedge-shaped layer of brown sterile earth fullly identical with number 7. The presence of this this earth so high above the rock and with other foreign layers nearest this shows quite clearly that the substructure layers in room 13 have not come about in a natural way. It cannot be denied that a collapse inwarding from inside the room and out down towards its corner is demonstrable, but this need only mean that the earth layers were thrown from above downward and thus followed the rock sloping hither. In layer number 2 and also somewhat deeper interesting pottery was found. Apart from the common coarse ubiquitous … continues

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