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Field diary·DII:3c·1928–1930

Petra tou Limniti and Vouni

Kept by Alfred Westholm

164 handwritten pages in Swedish, each shown beside a transcription and an English translation, with the drawings on 4 pages cut out beside the text.

Read the field diary164 pages · 21,355 words · 7 dated entries

DII:3c holds Alfred Westholm's notes on three pieces of work around Vouni, labelled "Petra tou Limniti. Vouni: Paradisotissa, 18/6–19/6 1930, Westholm". It opens with Petra tou Limniti, the rocky islet off the coast where the expedition found Neolithic huts: the islet and its plateau, a first trial trench in early May 1928, the layers and floors of the huts, and a find register (flint chisels and scrapers, bone points, an idol), copied again later in the volume.

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The middle is an account of the Vouni palace room by room, beginning with room 14, the large court with its cement floor of 16.60 by 17.50 m, with dated entries from April 1929 near room 101. The Paradisotissa section tells how a life-size statue of a bearded priest had been ploughed up there years before, and records the trench of 18–19 June 1930, which found a three-roomed house and part of a Classical stone head, after which the party "returned up to the palace at Vouni with only disappointment". The text is in Swedish.

The page reader shows each page's scan beside our transcription and English translation. See also Petra tou Limniti and Vouni: the Temple of Athena, Paradisotissa and Loures.

Sources

  • Gjerstad, E., Lindros, J., Sjöqvist, E. and Westholm, A. 1934. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927–1931, vol. I. Stockholm, pp. 1–12.
  • Gjerstad, E., Lindros, J., Sjöqvist, E. and Westholm, A. 1937. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927–1931, vol. III. Stockholm, pp. 111–290, 292–297.

Dated entries

As written in the field diary, in page order

  1. 18 Jun 1930VOUNIscan 1
  2. May 1928Petra tou Limnitiscan 3
  3. 18 Jun 1930Paradisiotissascan 21
  4. 4 Apr 1929Vouniscan 103
  5. 18 Apr 1929Vouniscan 117
  6. 18 Jun 1930Vouniscan 136
  7. 18 Jun 1930Paradisiotissascan 156

Pages

Scan order; the field diary’s own page numbers where it has them

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  2. p. 107
  3. scan 3
  4. p. 109
  5. scan 5
  6. p. _III_
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  20. p. 125
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  31. p. 1
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  33. p. 3
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  35. p. 5
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  37. p. 7
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  39. p. 9
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  41. p. 11
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  43. p. 13
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  45. p. 15
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  47. p. 17
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  49. p. 19
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  51. p. 21
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  57. p. 27
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  59. p. 24
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  75. p. 45
  76. p. 6
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  78. scan 78
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  106. p. 79
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  110. p. 83
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  118. p. 89
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  120. p. 91
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  122. p. 93
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  130. p. 101
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  132. p. 103
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  135. p. 106
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  137. p. 107
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  164. scan 164

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The whole diary

Short
Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:3c (Petra tou Limniti and Vouni, 1928–1930).
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Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:3c, Petra tou Limniti and Vouni, 1928–1930. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-3c (accessed [date]).
BibTeX
@misc{sce-dii-3c, author = {Alfred Westholm}, title = {{Field diary DII:3c: Petra tou Limniti and Vouni}}, year = {1928}, howpublished = {Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–1931. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:3c}, note = {transcription and English translation ancientcyprus.com, CC BY 4.0}, url = {https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-3c} }

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:3c (Petra tou Limniti and Vouni, 1928–1930), p. 107.
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Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:3c, Petra tou Limniti and Vouni, 1928–1930, p. 107 [scan 2]. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-3c/p/2 (accessed [date]).

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:3c (Petra tou Limniti and Vouni, 1928–1930), p. 107, l. 2.
Full
Alfred Westholm, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:3c, Petra tou Limniti and Vouni, 1928–1930, p. 107 [scan 2], line 2. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-3c/p/2#l2 (accessed [date]).