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 132 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 132 of 165

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282… and towards the stairs down to the courtyard, room 14. The steps of the stairs are visibly razed here, but no closing wall is found. In room 17 there is found a fine bronze spearhead (length 16 cm) 282. The spearhead's position emerges from the sketch. It lay directly on the cement floor. The walls of the room are preserved only to a slight height, in places visible only at the level of the floor.

Room 18Room 18 lies immediately north-west of room 17 and occupies an area of c 6 m X 4,50 m. The floor level is the same as in rooms 16 and 17. The walls are preserved only to the level of the floor surface or slightly higher. A peculiarity in their construction appears to be that the actual cobblestone wall which served as substructure for a mud-brick wall does not rest directly on the rock that was found immediately below, but on another substructure's wall of well-dressed ashlar blocks similar to those in the great stairs. Room 18 opens … continues

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