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 156 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 156 of 165

12,00 mDark surface layer with gypsum pieces
21,80 mWhite hard gypsum mass
31,70 mReddish earth upward blackish-
ish. An old agricultural-
layer in any case not of unbaked brick de-
bris.
41,40 mGrey unbaked brick earth
50,50 mReddish gravel with cement-
pieces. Roof collapse layer.
6— —Fine blown sand not visible in the section
70,00 mThe cement floor.

Compare this layer sequence with the one described earlier in room A! — The assumption of a lower now abandoned overlying cultivation level may seem unjustified without further evidence. Such evidence is provided by wall B-C, which runs roughly parallel to A-B and is cut at right angles by section b). This wall B-C, which is a single rubble wall one stone thick, has evidently been built before the uppermost gypsum layer came about, and on layer 3, which was previously assumed to be an old ground surface

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