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 77 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 77 of 165

Tomb 14.

Next tomb to the right. The dromos is cut with a stairway of 10 steps all very well preserved. The depth by the gateway is c 3 m. The dromos-fill is extremely undisturbed, chalk-white and hard. A A well-known darkening of the earth nearest the door suggests however that the tomb has been plundered. The dark fill layer ends against a large slab over which a few smaller stones lie. The large slab has probably stood in the gateway during plundering, been lifted up and thrown back into the position it now has. Of the undisturbed gateway only two square stones remain. The tomb has thus been plundered, which is evident at first sight of the interior. Only a little earth has seeped in through the gateway but over the entire base of the tomb … continues

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