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 30 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 30 of 165

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1 v2 v3 v… down to the floor. From the gateway earth had seeped in, forming a layer sloping inward from above, with earth like that in the dromos. The chamber itself consists of a roughly rectangular room with rounded corners. On 3 sides (all except the gateway side) there are broad niches, all of roughly the same appearance, at a distance of 0,75 - 0,80 m from the floor. No find was found in the niches, nor did the earth nearest the base suggest that anything had ever been there. Only 3 objects were found in the tomb, all on the floor of the chamber. In the very jamb of the gateway, immediately inside the door packing, lay a small lamp (1), and in the nearest left-hand corner was found a small unpainted jug, height 2 and a pithos, height - - (3), standing upright, leaning against the wall. The tomb, which has its interest on account of the architecture, may be considered extremely poor.

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