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 52 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).

Page (9) 9Scan 52 of 165

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… a large spetsamphora, height - - - The door is removed and the interior of the tomb is surveyed. The chamber consists of a long barrel-vaulted rectangular room. The tomb has, however, been searched by robbers who, through a hole in the wall leading in to tomb 9, gained access. Nearest the door there is a sloping collapse layer, which with rainwater has been washed in between the packing stones. This layer, however, thins out already 3 m from the door where thus the floor comes to light. In the chamber's rear gable wall there is a large niche, on which a skull lies among some small bone fragments. Over the whole of the fill vessels and sherds stick up. Immediately inside the well-preserved stomion two steps lead down to the actual tomb floor. The dromos's section line is extended straight inward ocn … continues

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