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 78 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 78 of 165

Continued from scan 77

… more or less smashed vessels scattered about without inner order. In the middle of the tomb there is a nearly metre-broad, 0,40 m deep and 2,80 m long depression, and in and beside this the vessels are located. Presumably they were thrown there by the robbers in a heap from their original places. To the right inside the door lie on the floor:

Lamplength11 cm1
Plain jugheight9,5 〃2
” – ” – Plain jug” heightpak3
Lower part of a red-figured lekythos4 a
The upper part was found further
in on the same side 4a. Between4a
these lies a canon pithos height
67 cm (5) - Diagonally across5.

Over the tomb extends a collection of vessels, all of which are more or less displaced from their original positions.

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