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 39 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 39 of 165

Continued from scan 38

… a quantity of larger stones whose origin is unclear, (possibly belonging together with the gateway), above this a layer of rock earth (collapse) and over everything together a thin layer of the darker earth of the dromos fill, which had seeped in through the doorway that the robbers left behind. — All the objects that were found lay on the floor of the tomb. These are as follows: A collection to the left inside the door

Alabaster aryballpieces44
Plain jugh. 1355
Dark brown chamber pot (pot)diam 1766
Lamp7
Bowldiam 13,58
” Bowl” diam 159

Among the sherds in the middle of the chamber's floor a few more intact vessels can be made out:

Amphora10
Painted hydria11

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