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 104 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).

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… the floor of room 72. In order that the levels further might be levelled out between the floor and the pit, the various green- and brown-layers were stamped down, after which the whole was left as it was. Σπήλαιον beneath the projecting rock edge has perhaps served as a rubbish corner where broken vessels were thrown (414-417) In the beige layer immediately above the presumed trodden-down floor level, the continuation of the black layer was found:

Sherds of a red figured and white ground kylix diam.414
Red figured askos (handle and spout missing) diam 11,5 cm415
Piece of a painted stonelamp (lotus) l. 8,5 cm416

All of these lie in exactly the same stratum and next to one another. Further in, in the σπήλαιον and at a slightly lower level but in the same beige-layer, the base fragments of a red-figure lekythos were found standing (sherds of a red

figured lekythos (basediam 8,8 cm) 417.417

Deeper down in the gully layer inside the σπήλαιον

lay on the rock a bronze loop diam 2,8 cm418

In the upper beige layer there was found on … continues

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