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 70 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 70 of 165

Tomb 12.

lies on the east slope of the tumulus and forms the southernmost of a row of tombs laid in a line (12-13-14-15). All these tombs show several internal similarities, as well in respect of the dromos as of the chamber. The dromos in tomb 12 has 8 steps, all well preserved. The fill is entirely homogeneous, very hard and chalky. The door packing consists of larger and smaller, poorly laid boulder-stones, through which rainwater has carried in earth from outside the dromos fill. Once the packing was removed, the interior of the tomb could be surveyed. A large piece of rock fallen from the roof covers the central parts of the floor. In the inner left corner, where the floor is bare, a few skeletal remains are visible. The collapse from the roof is removed and the grave goods are exposed. In connection with the skeletal … continues

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