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 50 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 50 of 165

Tomb 8.

At the very top of the same hill there is a threshing floor, and in this beneath it the dromoi of tombs 8 and 9 are cut into the rock. The rock here, as over the whole of the north-east slope, is very white, gypsum-like. It splits into large pieces with glassy flat cleavage faces. - On the eastern side of the halonis lies tomb 8. Already at the edge of the dromos there is found, up in the surface layer, a

miniature jug height 6 cm 1 and1
an plain bowl diam 22

both in the outer part of the dromos Somewhat deeper down in the dromos are found at about the middle

Plain jugheight17 cm3
” ” Plain jug” height18 "4
Painted small pithos” height13 "5

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