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 135 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 135 of 165

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285… in both directions. Object number 283 was found lying on the southwest wall, together with a small mentioned bowl, diam 12 cm (285.). Room 19 will be described in more detail later in connection with a fuller investigation.

Room 20

Room 20 is the room that lies southeast of room 16. It has a curious form of an angled corridor and is enigmatic in its character. Hardly can the room have served as a real corridor, since no actual floor was found over the unworked rock and since the room has such a slight extent. Moreover it ends blindly to the south, below what the earth conditions allow an assumption about a passage up towards rooms 21 and 22 in the southeast. The find that was made in room 20 can hardly give any information about the room's character. Possibly it can be connected with the stair conditions in rooms 15 and 21 with nearby walls. Room 20 has earlier been cut by one of the preliminary investigations- … continues

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