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 60 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 60 of 165

Tomb 9.

is of roughly the same type as tomb 8. A c 7 m long and 1,50 – 1,90 m wide dromos leads steeply down to the gateway. The dromos is cut with straight walls in strong light rock, 17 fairly worn steps to ease the descent. At the gateway the dromos has a depth of c 3 m. Already in the dromos fill one can trace that the tomb has been plundered. At the gateway the earth is namely a slightly darker tinge, marking the trench through which the robbers entered. Only 1 m below the surface one can through the collapsed gateway get an overview of the tomb. It has namely been exposed to a strong collapse, which to a large extent has despoiled the gateway itself. The collapse covers the whole tomb floor except the very … continues

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