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 17 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 17 of 165

Continued from scan 16

75.76.77.78.79… remains of a skeleton with coarse bones probably of a man. This has clearly been laid relatively late on a collapse layer sloping from the gateway. The head nearest the gateway thus lies be considerably higher than the bones. At an even height with the chest is found here a scraper of iron, length 75 and next to the original position of the head an unpainted jug, height 14 cm 76 and an unpainted pithos height 52 cm (77). – Ni 78 has previously been mentioned, an unpainted jug height 22 cm (78). Not far from there next to the wall an unpainted bowl diam 12,5 cm In the remaining part of the tomb are found at various depths in the collapse fill a quantity of vessels. In connection with these skeletal remains are also found but in such a damaged state that nothing with certainty can be said about where the different vessels belonged. Their position and levels

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