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 136 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 136 of 165

Continued from scan 135

… nas trial trench, in which its corridor character was observed, as well as a burnt layer inside the room. On a fuller excavation of av the room this burnt layer was found to extend over the whole corridor in the southern corner, resting directly on the rock, from there gradually rising towards the northern corner where it lies 0,45 m - 0,55 m above the rock. In this part of the room a further, lower burnt layer appears, which towards the south merges with the upper one. This lower burnt layer, which has of course formed in connection with the upper one, lies in the northern part of the room at a height of 0,25 - 0,30 m above the rock. If one imagines the earth conditions that prevailed, before the clearly connected layers with the fire had formed, one finds in the northern part of the room a mass of earth which towards the south gradually thins out up to the rock. This mass of earth is light in colour and has inclusions of lumps of dark brown sterile subsoil. Something horizontal … continues

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