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 140 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 140 of 165

Continued from scan 139

… beaten rings and a small pendant of gold. In this part of the pot, thus directly beneath the three bowls of silver nested within one another the earth, as well as between these, was very loosely packed. Finally, in this same part of the pot, there was lifted out a non-solid bracelet of silver in the form of two snakes turned towards one another. The snake bodies are separated from one another by a well-preserved, still functioning joint through which the bracelet can be opened and closed. — The earth from this entire part of room 20 double-sieved without any further find being made. A complete list of the find thus takes the following form: (see separate list elsewhere.)

through this pot across the corridor a section b) is made, and at right angles to this, toward the south-west, another a) (see drawing). The layer conditions in section b) have on the whole been described and explained earlier. At the very point of the section the following sequence of layers is read: =

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