Field diary·DII:3c·1928–1930

Petra tou Limniti and VouniAlfred Westholm

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Handwritten in Swedish. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 102 of field diary DII:3c (Petra tou Limniti and Vouni), handwritten in Swedish. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:3c, Public domain (CC0).

Page 75Scan 102 of 164

472.Rum 72391They are to be classed with the pottery, although they must be packed in plaster. From the earth of 73 was found an arrowhead of iron The earth conditions in room 72 above the floor are roughly the same as in 73. The pottery is, however, markedly decreasing in this direction of the storeroom row. Room Above the floor only one find was made: fragment of a female terracotta statuette H 5 cm 391 in beige-coloured earth. – In the south-eastern wall and also partly sunk below the floor there is however a grotto-like cavity, which probably was there on the site already before the storerooms were built. As soon as the cavity was observed its extent is established, whereupon it is excavated with a knife in the same way as a tomb, with the leaving of a longitudinal section. (see drawing). In the same way as in a tomb excavation the designations Δρόμος left (of the section line) and right) Σπήλαιον left and right The left part of Δρόμος is excavated first up to Σπήλαιον, where just the outermost … continues

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