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 158 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 158 of 165

Continued from scan 157

294.… interesting vessel was recovered in sherds from rooms C and B. Over the whole southern part of this area, sherds scattered directly on the floor were found, the of a larger red-figure lekythos.294 When the sherds were put together the figures proved to be three in number. On a chair sits a bearded man dressed in Persian costume holding a spear. Behind the chair stands a woman, and in front of him pieces of another figure holding a bow The lekythos sherds were strongly concentrated at the southern corner, especially next to wall A-B. Undoubtedly they belong to the palace's time. The absolute absence of sherds on the other side of wall A-B in r A confirms the assumption that this wall also belonged to the palace. The red-figure lekythos was smashed on the floor in room B-C while at a time when wall A-B divided room 11 into two halves. The lekythos is, because of its position, significant from a dating point of view. — In the wall towards room … continues

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