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 128 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 128 of 165

Continued from scan 127

… gets the following appearance:

11,90 mBlack surface layer
21,35 "Grey earth of dissolved
light mud brick
30,60 "Reddish earth of dissolved
dark mud brick
40,00 "The cement floor

279the lower red, dark earth as well as the upper grey, light earth seems, to judge by everything, to have come from the wall with the stairs up to room X. No collapse from room I can be traced. Regarding the conditions closest to the wall of this room, see the description and drawing of trial trench 1. In room 15 a significant find was made of a well shaped tortoise of terra cotta, length 11,5 cm, (279) The tortoise, whose situation in the room is shown on the plan, was found at a depth of 0,80 m from … continues

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