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 88 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 88 of 165

jug h. 12 cm (15). Then15. 10.7

with the chamber fully excavated and the dromos cleared, the conditions at the door can be studied. A very weak door packing is preserved to c 70 cm in height. Whether the upper part was destroyed by the roof collapse or pushed inward by tomb robbers is immaterial. Outside the preserved part of the door packing was a series of vessels placed which all gave the impression of being in situ. Their positions and numbers appear from the dromos plan.

Cannon pithosh.jerk16 v 46.1
Plain jug„ h.18 cm17 v 13.5
„ Plain bowldiam13 „18 v 13.3
„ Plain jugh.12 „19 v 12.7
Dark (?) jug„ h.jerk20 v 11.0

The dromos is otherwise like dromoi at Vouni, mostly usually provided with steps, in this case 6 in number. So that was the matter. 26/7 1928.

[written sideways: AW]

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