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 5 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 5 of 165

Vouní 26/6 – 26/7 1928

τοπος — Korakas

26/6In Theocharis' field c. 400 m west of the Vouní foot, where graves had been found during earlier investigations. They seem to lie on the west side of a hill slope, by a small valley hollow that runs along the pine-planted government road. On this site there are fields with only a little earth. The fields are beautifully overgrown with pine and haroupia. At less than a stone's throw from the road there is found

Tomb 1.

The dromos, c 4 m deep, is excavated leaving a earth section standing on the left of the tomb's central axis. Because of the loose rock this section collapses before the layer sequence could be drawn. It had however a largely horizontal character, possibly … continues

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