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 32 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 32 of 165

4 ✓The layer sequence beneath this darker surface layer is homogeneous white, gypsum-like with an admixture of rock debris. Adjoining the doorway packing, which to the greater part is destroyed, is found an undecorated jug, height 15 cm, 4 at a level which probably corresponds to the uppermost part of the doorway packing. The vessels found earlier were taken out by mistake before their exact position and level had time to be recorded. They lay, however, in the outer part of the dromos without connection with 4. Of the rock above the doorway packing only an insignificant remnant is preserved (see the section). The chamber is excavated from above. Beneath a thick surface layer of black earth the actual rock collapse is found. This extends right down to the solid bottom. At a level of c 40 cm above this bot- … continues

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