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 46 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 46 of 165

In the vicinity of this group of vessels but closer to the wall lie three vessels

Plain jugheight 29 cm36
Alabaster ball” height 13 "37
Plain jug” height 17 "38

These vessels are separated from the floor by a thin layer of rock collapse. – Leaning against the wall just in the rounded corner stand three cannon pithoi in a row entirely in situ:

Cannon pithosheight 6739
— ” — Cannon pithos” height 7040
— ” — Cannon pithos” height pak41

These stand on the floor and, despite the collapse from the roof, have been only slightly damaged. The collapse from the roof does not appear to have occurred in a single mass but in the form of a rain-like falling of small stones over millennia...

The chamber is now fully excavated. Meanwhile the dromos … continues

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